xkcd 386.... - Linux - kbin.social

popey, 20 days ago

xkcd 386.

Linux Mint monthly news suggests that "6 million people" have installed the (unverified) Google Chrome flatpak from Flathub.

No, the number is nearer 200K.

Don't confuse "installs" with "devices". It's around 200K devices (which typically will be people) and 6 million downloads of software updates or clean installs.

All very good numbers, but not the same thing. By an order of magnitude. Super (intentionally?) misleading.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

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A graph showing downloads of the chrome snap. When a new release goes out (or the package is rebuilt for some reason) there's a peak of 100K downloads in one day, some more the next day and so-on over a week or so. That amounts to about 200K or so (roughly)
A screenshot from Flathub suggesting 6 million "installs" of Chrome. It should probably say "6 million downloads of the package, which are often the same machine downloading updates, it's not 6 million people" but that probably wouldn't fit.
xkcd comic 386 "Are you coming to bed?" "I can't. This is important.' "What?" "Someone is

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