Is this the year of Arch? We dig through the results from our listener home server survey, and compare our audience\’s answers with another recent large survey, and find some surprising results.

Plus how the “Power Linux User” is underrepresented by developer attention, and we share some Linux switching stories that go horribly wrong!

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The Year of Arch?

Results of the 2014 /r/Linux Distribution Survey

The data was pulled from Google Docs and contained 10,292 responses (up from 7,698 last year, and 4,932 the year before that). This is probably a mix of /r/Linux’s growth in active users and the /r/Linux moderators stickying my survey post.

• Do you use Linux on any non-server computers? Responses Responses (%)

Yes 9896 96%

No 383 4%

Do you run Linux on any of your server computers? Responses Responses (%)

Yes 5940 58%

No 4339 42%

Distribution Server Users Desktop Users

Arch Linux 64% 36%

Ubuntu 54% 46%

Debian 67% 33%

Linux Mint 45% 55%

Fedora 68% 32%

elementary OS 38% 62%

Xubuntu 54% 46%

Crunchbang 47% 53%

Gentoo 81% 19%

OpenSUSE 59% 41%

Kubuntu 58% 42%

Other 53% 47%

After two years of a strong Ubuntu lead, Arch Linux has taken the lead as the #1 distribution

Favorite GUIs Responses

GNOME 3.x 1565

KDE 4.x 1339

XFCE 1201

Unity 1166

Cinnamon 1034

i3 608

Openbox 567

Pantheon 459

Awesome 334

GNOME 2.x (or fork/derivative) 322

Other 1358

• Straw Poll: What’s your DE?