> From: iloveubuntulinux <valchaulinux@gmail.com>
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>I like Mint as well and I noticed that it became the #1 downloaded distro since Ubuntu started using its new Unity desktop instead of the stable GNOME.
Mint is not a bad distro. I would question your data though.
1) Popular and good are not necessarily always the same thing though.
2) Downloaded also does not equal the most popular.
a) A single disk can be downloaded once and then placed on hundreds of systems. (This happens a lot in the enterprise environment. For example my work's IT department offers a choice of Windows7 or Ubuntu LTS)
b) I know Ubuntu also mails disks and hands out thumb drive with the OS at libraries.
c) The other distros have user groups that have events to load the OS on laptops. These wouldn't count as downloads either.
d) Neither does someone downloading the OS and loading it on a friends machine also.
4) It is not the most popular linux distro either though, and I also sincerely doubt that it is the most downloaded distro. That belongs to Andriod. Red Hat and other server OS distros follow that, long before desktop distros.
Matt
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