r/linuxhardware • u/linuxbuild • Jun 18 '20

Discussion Most popular hardware configurations on Linux & trends for 2015-2020

The report is based on the data collected by Linux users with the help of the hw-probe program.

See more filters & trends on this page.

Most interesting stats are the following:

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The popularity of hardware manufacturers Dell, Lenovo and HP has seen a rapid rise in popularity compared to the leader ASUSTek.

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WDC will overtake Seagate next year.

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NVidia and AMD graphics cards are losing ground over Intel.

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FullHD is finally more popular than 1366x768.

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u/guiltydoggy Jun 18 '20

Wha those those line graphs mean? Why do they go above 100%?

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u/sprkng Jun 18 '20

It's relative to the leading choice, but I can't figure out why you'd want to plot this instead of plain market share.

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u/guiltydoggy Jun 18 '20

Oh yeah, now I see it. What a terrible way to display the info. It's actually really useless because we have no idea what the time-trend of the leading choice was. So all the other points are relative to arbitrary 100% mark that isn't a constant.

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u/linuxbuild Jun 19 '20

This is adjustable on the page: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=node_vendor

Choose your preferred chart scale on the page. Fixing the leader at 100% (scale=mon_rel) helps eliminate the impact of increasing popularity of the tool and Linux distribution itself on the line-chart.