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[โ€“] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is why some level of telemetry can be useful. That ranking is just DistroWatch rank which might poorly reflect actual popularity

[โ€“] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Indeed. Sadly, corporations abused telemetry so much that it makes users automatically distrust software with it - even when it's opt-in. As such I'm not surprised it isn't more common, specially in the Linux ecosystem.