Since Artix has now 100 user ratings on Distrowatch, it popped up at the "DistroWatch Project Ranking":
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ranking (https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ranking)
In fosstodon (A mastodon instance) there are many people who is trying Artix and some of them are using it as daily driver.
To the moon and beyond!
Disclaimer:
This has nothing to to with BoJo's "operation moonshot", we don't want to scare our british users. 8)
We are slowly climbing up:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ranking (https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ranking)
Artix is one of the best systemd free distros out there
Artix is my only beautiful OS for over a year !!
I don't see any point in looking towards other Linux OS
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Distrowatch - either stupid or lying
Neither, they never claimed to be accurate about their ranking system (https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity).
"The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more."
I would imagine the first 10-ish links in that list are more likely to be clicked just out of curiosity. It would be a bit more fair if the list was just text with no links.
They can also direct users' attention to click a specific distro if that guy "Jesse" writes a "good" review on that distro and publishes it on distrowatch.com. It's all about business & $$$.
Artix is the only systemd distro I trust and has, IMO, stability. I appreciate how much work is done to do this and can never say Thank You enough. It is a huge undertaking to run a new distro. SuSE , after decades, is killing its release versions and people are in an uproar that they forget the most basic fact of these free software projects, which is that they take a lot of work, and mostly run by volunteers with limited, if any, financial pay off. So to Artoo and company, I give you my love and regards and thanks.
I love Artix! Freeing users of systemd! I hope the rest of the community does so as well even if it fragments and creates more variants. I think it will be good for linux in general. Like how gnome went to shit on its users, and drop quite a bit of functionality for so called sleekness and minimalism. Now theres much more DE/MWs than before to fill the void!
I have artix on 3 of my systems so far. Runit on 2, and dinit on my media pc. Works flawlessly, and quick on both of them. Probably will try S6 sometimes soon.
I'd just like to hold my hand up and say "it was me!". The last review on Distrowatch ("a truly wonderful...."), pointing out with blunt diplomacy exactly why it's so low on Distrowatch despite high review ratings, and yet low "recommendations". I do so hope it has enraged the culprit and will give them a truly restless night. Peace. :-)
yes, really, that'll be the actual review rating you posted (like i said "...despite high review ratings..") , not the "recommendations" which was a simple way of saying the "was this review helpful" figures. which moves the position up and down on the right panel on the main distrowatch screen.. Me bad, guess i should have said that instead of using a single 5 syllable word. :D
I don't know if I've said it before, but I've switched 100% to artix. Even w/ the xanmod kernel. It's hands down the best distro I've tried. It's the most stable and flexible distro I've used all the major ones and too many of the wanna bes.