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Title: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: flatfly on May 16, 2012, 05:33:47 PM What is the current % of Bitcoin users running windows, macOS and linux? Are there some data or charts available somewhere?
Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: Stephen Gornick on May 16, 2012, 05:50:32 PM About 80% windows, 10% Mac, 7% Linux.
https://i.imgur.com/VkUVy.png (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/os) That's just for the Bitcoin.org client. And those are rough numbers. Linux users might not download and use apt-get (or other distribution method, or from the github repo itself) instead, for instance. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/os That distribution doesn't vary greatly from overall usage: - http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0 [Update: O/S information isn't sent by the client so there is no way to determine from user agent info what O/S. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0014 ] Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: flatfly on May 16, 2012, 07:49:28 PM Nice figures, thanks for that!
But now I'm wondering how many Linux users use apt-get and other methods rather than regular download... I am sure the % of Bitcoin users running Linux must be way higher than 10%. Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: jim618 on May 16, 2012, 08:43:42 PM If you have a look at the MultiBit download numbers here:
https://github.com/jim618/multibit/downloads (https://github.com/jim618/multibit/downloads) They are, very roughly: 60% Windows 20% Mac 20% Linux Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: etotheipi on May 17, 2012, 12:18:01 AM Based on the download counts on the Armory downloads page on Github (https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory/downloads), the last release of Armory was about
70% Windows 30% Linux 0% Mac [not supported!] However, the stats are a little fuzzy because many users will actually install Armory on two different computers (online and offline), and many users download two different versions, maybe 3 or 4 if they get the versions wrong. I've been recommending using Ubuntu for the offline system, because it's very simple to setup a linux system that only runs one program, even if you're normally a windows user. That may be skewing the results a bit in favor of Linux (actually, does it matter? They are setting up Bitcoin software on a linux system, maybe they should count anyway...) Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: 01BTC10 on May 17, 2012, 01:21:29 AM I use git clone on Ubuntu.
Title: Re: Bitcoin and OS stats Post by: jim618 on May 17, 2012, 05:25:16 AM <marketing spin on>
Linux marketing share quadruples in less than 24 hours Stunning increases in Linux market share in Bitcoin have been reported. In less than 24 hours it has increased from 7%, to 20%, up to an impressive 30%. Total installs for Windows, Mac and Linux have increased from 97% (80 + 10 + 7) to a high estimate of 130% (80 + 20 + 30). The volume control in the cult movie 'This is Spinal Tap' famously went up to eleven (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven). Now with Bitcoin it goes all the way up to an ear-melting thirteen. <marketing spin off> :-) |
