Distrowatch and kubuntu

[anonprivate]

I have been reading the Distrowatch pages and notice that kubuntu does not do well in the ratings. I wonder why it appears to do less well than many other disros?

[GreyGeek]

I have been reading the Distrowatch pages and notice that kubuntu does not do well in the ratings. I wonder why it appears to do less well than many other disros?

Because the Page Hit Rankings don't mean much and can be easily manipulated by zealots, as is often the case. A better metric is the OS of the visitors to that site. In them you can see that only 2% of the 49% of Linux users actually use an Ubuntu bsed OS.

Linux		14,448,963	49.1 %
	Zenwalk GNU Linux	52	0 %
	Vine Linux	109	0 %
	Ubuntu	615,930	2 %
	Suse	823	0 %
	Red Hat	345	0 %
	PCLinuxOS	20	0 %
	Mandriva (or Mandrake)	62	0 %
	Gentoo	139	0 %
	Fedora	771	0 %
	Debian	3,305	0 %
	Centos	2	0 %
	ASPLinux	126	0 %
	Google Android	1,326,356	4.5 %
	GNU Linux (Unknown or unspecified distribution)	12,500,923	42.5 %

Most Linux users are using an "unknown" distro. Probably Kubuntu