[I posted this to the desktop list, as it seems most relevant to Fedora Workstation, but it occurs to me that it's also quite interesting from an overall strategic perspective.] <http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015> There's a lot which is of interest here, but this jumped out at me: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-os Breakdown by OS: * 58.3% Windows 7 & 8 * 21.5% OS X * 20.5% Linux Which is awesome and encouraging for desktop Linux. However, the breakdown of distros (from 4667 responses) is: * 12.0% Ubuntu * 2.2% Debian * 1.6% Mint * 1.3% Fedora * 4.0% Other So... we've got some Room for Growth there. :) Unfortuantely, Stack Exchange didn't ask distro version in previous years, but this'll at least give us a number from here. (For OSes as a whole, the shift seems to be entirely from Windows XP and 7 to Windows 8 — desktop Linux is basically flat and OS X gains a few percent over the past two years.) I wish they asked about deployment / target OS, too. You can see some of the demographics further down the study — about a third (32%) are full-stack web devs, 14% are students, 10% do back-end web devs, 9% mobile, 8% desktop, 6% front-end web, and then enterprise developers of various stripes at 2.9%. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss
