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So people see it on the list and click on it wondering "what the heck is this MX Linux thing". And that boosts the ranking. And now that it's at the top, it attracts more curious clicks, thus it continues to remain on top.
That's exactly how I learned about MX and started using it.
"You know what MX stands for?"
"Maestro Xylophone?"
"Mix King"
Massacre Xenos
Mexico Linux
Mellow Xylitol
lol same, around 2018 IIRC, I was tired of Mint/Cinnamon, I wanted something simple, check DW, download MX, never looked back.
It was around the end of last year for me. Got truly sick and tired of using Arch and derivatives for 2+ years and having them crap out all the time. Went through a bunch of distros, but MX felt the best and had the best support for xfce. Slapped nix on top to install userland packages, and it's pretty damn good.
@d3Xt3r @zyratoxx IT is true that this is a terrible way of measuring popularity, like they could put surveys or use the searches on the site for instance
Back in the days of the Linux counter that’s essentially how it worked.
Nobody cares
I do
I don't.
I haven't tried MX Linux. So they set the distrowatch page as start page in the browser, and users never change it?
No, people go on the distrowatch website, see mx linux at the top and wonder what it is because it seems to be popular but they've never heard of it, so they click on it, which boosts the ranking and makes it remain at the top. A website can't change your browser's start page.
Definitely, but still those hit per day numbers gotta come from somewhere. There is of course the possibility to mess around here but I don't want to make accusations out of the blue when there may be that huge fanbase that's just keeping it low >.<