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Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am**

https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:07 am**

just voted

only need 2892 more to catch ubuntu

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:14 am**

2746 now.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:49 am**

2857 now.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:10 am**

I didn't know FreeBSD was a Linux distribution.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:56 am**

AK-47 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:10 am I didn't know FreeBSD was a Linux distribution.

And the article/site is suppose to be done by Red Hat? And whoever did the article needs a course in presenting multiple years worth of common graphs for comparison, points off for not aligning distributions in columns to be easily compared year to year

3,119 now.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:01 am**

I don't see any reason why MX would not have much more votes. How many active users do we have on this forum..... must be +1,000. When is this vote ending?

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:23 am**

AK-47 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:10 am I didn't know FreeBSD was a Linux distribution.

Not as bad as last year when they decided ReactOS, based on MS Windows code, was a "Linux distribution" in their 2019 poll. https://opensource.com/sites/default/fi ... -years.jpg

Almost as amusing, this is a RedHat website, and no RedHat-based distro has managed to win their own popularity contest.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:38 am**

It interesting that we didn't even show up in the previous years (maybe only in "Other"), now we are making a showing, it's already a win in my view.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:09 pm**

Almost as amusing, this is a RedHat website, and no RedHat-based distro has managed to win their own popularity contest.

So you don't know that centOS is RedHat based?

Edit: Oops I misread your comment. I thought you were referring to the list not having any Red Hat based distros in it.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:37 pm**

rasat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:01 am I don't see any reason why MX would not have much more votes. How many active users do we have on this forum..... must be +1,000.

Probably many (most?) of the users are like me, only checking the board every few months.

Stats off the forum front page show:

Code: Select all

In total there are 33 users online :: 6 registered, 0 hidden and 27 guests (based on users active over the past 2 minutes)
Most users ever online was 1866 on Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:19 am
Total members 8585

6 people over 2 minutes doesn't really tell us much about usage per day though

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:08 pm**

Arch was as big as Ubuntu in 2014, then not included in 2015, and then kept a steady number of votes until 2018. I don't know what happened in 2019, the numbers are way lower than they should be. Anyway, the inclusion of a distro/OS is by itself publicity, especially when the list is small. Go MX!

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:21 pm**

Done!

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:02 pm**

MX vote is growing 10 votes per hour.... go, go.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:41 pm**

I hope you all realize that you can vote more than once making this a "FAKE election."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:35 pm**

Mauser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:41 pm I hope you all realize that you can vote more than once making this a "FAKE election."

All online votes have this short-come..... nothing new. This vote is similar to DistroWatch hit rank. :) Its fun and hopefully more users will try MX.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:20 pm**

Voted MX. But I was little torn - almost entered antiX. It's a toss up!

Seems Debian is well liked, when considering Ubuntu and MX are Debian based.

Seaken64

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:49 pm**

rasat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:35 pm
Mauser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:41 pm I hope you all realize that you can vote more than once making this a "FAKE election."
All online votes have this short-come..... nothing new. This vote is similar to DistroWatch hit rank. :) Its fun and hopefully more users will try MX.

Not in my experience you can vote more than once on all online voting. But I agree with on DistroWatch and I understand what you mean. Not a bad idea.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:15 pm**

399th vote to MX is mine

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:33 am**

Mauser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:49 pm Not in my experience you can vote more than once on all online voting. But I agree with on DistroWatch and I understand what you mean. Not a bad idea.

You cannot control voters using different devices, domains or email addresses depending on control criteria. As I said, helps MX to be known and will also benefit antiX.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:45 am**

MX is now in 9th position, +150 votes more will be fine. Ubuntu is pre-installed in thousands of machines, no point of competing but to have a nice number of votes among top 5.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:47 pm**

Done!!

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:11 pm**

Cookie support required to anonymous voting

No, no I wasn't trying to game the voting with a Tor browser, it was a proof of concept attempt .!.!.!.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:34 pm**

One vote that is enough, fair game.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:52 pm**

Another nice point with this vote, gives an idea about number of active Linux users who are following the news and activities..... +20, 000 votes in two days.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:26 pm**

It’s kinda sad that all the Slackware and Gentoo users were forgotten with this poll.

But I guess that happens when you have to add FreeBSD Linux.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:31 am**

Michael-IDA wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:11 pm
Cookie support required to anonymous voting
No, no I wasn't trying to game the voting with a Tor browser, it was a proof of concept attempt .!.!.!.

Let me give a stern and serious word of advice to all voters in any online voting contest: cheating a vote this way is reprehensible.
Your intentions may not be so bad, but try and understand how this kind of thing affects how others see the MX community. It's a dishonest act, and can put MX Linux' reputation at risk of being a "community with cheaters." All our hard work destroyed in a jiffy.

I'd rather see Ubuntu win than MX cheating. I may or may not represent the other devs here on this, but I would imagine at least a large majority would agree with my stance. As would, I'm sure, the admins and mods of this forum, MX guides, and the respectable user base of MX.

So, one more time, to those participating in a voting contest: by all means, have fun, but please do not cheat!

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:06 am**

m_pav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

I hope any MX users who see this will vote for MX linux.
But no cheating please.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:10 am**

I agree with AK-47. Gaming the system will just make MX users look like rabid fanboys and girls who would do anything just to make it APPEAR as if MX has won a popularity contest.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:56 am**

Bump

m_pav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

I hope any MX users who see this will vote for MX linux.
But no cheating please.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 12:39 pm**

Some would consider opening a thread about the competition on the distribution's forum to garner extra votes to be cheating in itself.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:25 pm**

Looking at the MX vote increase frequency, as I said earlier 10 votes per hour, no cheating is there. What was good and has given nice number of votes (currently 521), to have this thread visible in "Newest Posts" column. Those distros with high vote number in such short time, some type of advertisement most likely is there.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:56 pm**

Yes, some of the distros have gathered thousands of votes in only three days - looks very suspicious to me!
And IIRC those thousands were there even on the first day...

The site is owned by Redhat : who owns the author of the article?

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:47 pm**

Can anybody explain the mystery of this apparently dishonest article?
m_pav, you pointed to it - any clues?

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pm**

I don't know where you all see the number of votes so far. This election is a sham.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:13 am**

Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pm I don't know where you all see the number of votes so far.

Enable javascript for that page then enter a vote yourself.

Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pm This election is a sham.

+1

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:43 am**

Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pmThis election is a sham.

It's a reasonable measure of how many fanbois distros have. Certainly not a measure of quality or even just number of users. In the 2018 poll, PCLinuxOS had more votes than Ubuntu. A handful of PCLos users must have spent a lot of time casting multiple votes.
I'd guess cookies are the only means of checking if someone has voted from a particular computer. Surely they could set it up to only allow one vote per IP address.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:34 am**

Head_on_a_Stick wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:13 am
Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pm I don't know where you all see the number of votes so far.
Enable javascript for that page then enter a vote yourself.

Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pm This election is a sham.
+1

I am not changing my security settings so some spyware can run.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:03 am**

sunrat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:43 am
Mauser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:13 pmThis election is a sham.
It's a reasonable measure of how many fanbois distros have. Certainly not a measure of quality or even just number of users. In the 2018 poll, PCLinuxOS had more votes than Ubuntu. A handful of PCLos users must have spent a lot of time casting multiple votes.
I'd guess cookies are the only means of checking if someone has voted from a particular computer. Surely they could set it up to only allow one vote per IP address.

There is nothing reasonable about it. It is a measure of how many individuals can vote for the same distro as many times as they can or want to. An individual can vote once or more than once. All what this election is to give the illusion of distros ranking the same as like the rankings on Distrowatch. It's a Fantasy-land election for fun. Enjoy and have fun.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:19 am**

Mauser wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:34 am I am not changing my security settings so some spyware can run.

Very wise.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:01 am**

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Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:52 am**

It could be useful by alerting IBM to the popularity (and excellence) of MX Linux.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:31 pm**

GuiGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:52 am alerting IBM to the popularity (and excellence) of MX Linux

MX will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:13 pm**

I don't mind what other distros vote, "cheating" or not, but the vote number of MX users. According to the active forum users, the number supposed to be higher. Maybe many are not interested in this open vote.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:53 pm**

Head_on_a_Stick wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:31 pm ........
MX will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

True, and it's sad, not really funny

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We already depend on Redhat (aka IBM) and Debian.
Still struggling to avoid the worst aspects of systemd.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:08 pm**

IBM spent millions defending Linux in the SCO patent disputes and they pay their staff to help make the kernel better for all of us so perhaps it isn't all bad.

But anyway that appears to be distinctly off-topic for this thread so I'll shut up now :lipsrsealed:

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:05 am**

Bump to forum front page

m_pav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:47 pm**

When fell off front page, 10 hours staid with 552 votes. Now 563

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:56 pm**

Again

m_pav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:44 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:41 pm**

GuiGuy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:47 pm Can anybody explain the mystery of this apparently dishonest article?
m_pav, you pointed to it - any clues?

It came up on my phones news feed.

All this talk has piqued my interest as to why this poll really was posted. One thing for certain is people that would not have otherwise visited that site are going to go there, if not for anything more than curiosity. For it to have come up in a news feed, you'd think someone triggered it to do so, so it may very well be nothing more than a form of click bait, evidenced by the fact that results are hidden behind a click-wall. It's most likely a revenue stream for the site host.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:54 am**

Took a look if there is any talk in Arch Linux forum or other platform, no results. But has +1900

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2020 5:33 am**

ssshhhh. We don't want to attract any unwarranted attention.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2020 10:45 am**

Is this thing receiving thousands of votes from bots or is it just a sham?
Either way IBM/Redhat should be ashamed.
And apologize for propagating fake news.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2020 11:52 am**

If we look at Arch forum there are constantly ~400 guests online. Approximately 150 new registered users per month. Out of 10 will post ~5 posts. I would say, bots do the vote.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:12 pm**

The Arch devs don't care about popularity:

Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more user-friendly, Arch Linux has always been, and shall always remain user-centric. The distribution is intended to fill the needs of those contributing to it, rather than trying to appeal to as many users as possible.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar ... centrality

But there sure are a lot of Arch fanbois around...

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2020 6:50 am**

Head_on_a_Stick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:12 pm The Arch devs don't care about popularity:
........
But there sure are a lot of Arch fanbois around...

MX fanboi numbers are rapidly increasing: are we too lazy to vote?

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:10 am**

m_pav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:04 am https://opensource.com/article/20/1/fav ... stribution

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2020 3:23 pm**

>5000 votes for Ubuntu is the most suspicious of all

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Posted: **Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:37 am**

GuiGuy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 10:45 am Is this thing receiving thousands of votes from bots or is it just a sham?
Either way IBM/Redhat should be ashamed.
And apologize for propagating fake news.

I see (after more careful reading) that the site is only sponsored, not owned, by IBM/Redhat.

Posted: **Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:54 am**

When you think about it if just the developers and creators of some of these distros vote then they get hundred if not thousands of votes just from that.

We have to remember that despite popularity, usage, and everything involved.... MX is still a young and small distro in comparison to many others.

People are talking about MX, writing about MX, and downloading MX... at the end of the day that is more important than any survey.

Posted: **Tue Feb 04, 2020 6:30 pm**

How could they get thousands of votes recorded so quickly without using some sort of bot?

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:00 am**

MX (649) looks clean. Would not expect more than ~700 which is a good number as a "new" distro at the top. When will this vote end..... in December??

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