Ubuntu, as one of the largest Linux distribution community, continues to lose its popularity. The latest data from DistroWatch, the Canonical's Linux distribution is now in fourth position as the most popular Linux distribution and the first rank is replaced by Mint Linux.
In fact, for many years, Ubuntu has always been at the top of the DistroWatch list as the most popular Linux distribution. But since last year, Ubuntu goes down to the second position before lowering to his current position.
The Inquirer on November 25th 2011 states the reduction of Ubuntu in the fourth position making Fedora is able to rise to the second position and OpenSUSE in the third position. Mint itself, is not only able to maintain its position at the top, according to records, in the last month popularity increasing 66 percent more.
It is estimated, Canonical faces the reality of this bad luck for his decision to distribute Ubuntu with Unity desktop as its default interface. DistroWatch statistics figures that it can be used as evidence the company's decision to maintain Unity, instead of Gnome, is a wrong step.
Just like Ubuntu, Mint is based on Debian is also aimed at the layman. Mint also optimizes the user interface on Mint Gnome Shell Extensions. But unlike Canonical the changes made aiming to make the interface of Linux becoming more like Gnome 2.
Although Unity may be more suitable for devices that have touch screens, but the others using old fashioned hardware seems to prefer to use the more common desktop manager like Gnome and KDE.
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