Re: Don't count ISOs (Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE merits a better home page)

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Friday 2017-10-27 09:06, Richard Brown wrote:

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On 27 October 2017 at 08:20, Felix Miata wrote:

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Richard Brown composed on 2017-10-26 15:39 (UTC+0200):

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- our number of monthly downloads of our distributions had steadily declined - our number of downloads around each release had steadily declined, - our number of unique users of our official download repos had steadily increased

Was the competence of Zypper taken into consideration here? I can't remember the last time I did an offline upgrade

Indeed, of course we took it into consideration. It's simple logic really - You can make one absolute conclusion - less people downloading the ISO's means less potential new users and contributors. You do not gain new users from 'zypper dup'

I think you are quite mistaken on that one. New users can get their system without anyone downloading any ISO file.

I was about to write something to that effect, but I suspect the vast majority of genuinely _new_ users do start with the ISO burned to a DVD or USB stick.

What happens these days is that existing system images get cloned. Think AWS, or local containers. Those non-graphic modes of operation are very important, given the target user group you say:

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focusing openSUSE's messaging more towards SysAdmins, Developers & Power Users

Counting unique UUIDs is a must. If you only look at .iso file requests, you are only looking at a subset of openSUSE installations, where installation by ISO was the faster or only alternative over other forms of system population.

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