@Dragonmouth,

Thank you for your comment! I appreciate your feedback and understand your concern. You’re absolutely right that the list has evolved, and based on the most recent DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking (PHR) as of January 6, 2025.

I have updated the rankings accordingly. The new list now includes Mint, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Pop!_OS, and openSUSE, as they are among the top contenders. I strive to keep the content as relevant and up-to-date as possible, and your input helps improve the accuracy of the information shared.

Thank you for pointing that out!

Yours is the same, hackneyed list that tech writers and pundits have been serving up for many years, with minimal changes, as the “best” or “most popular”. It seems like everybody is reading from the same script.

Yes, I was surprised that SuSE and RedHat were not on the list. But, who knows how they come up with their lists?.

From DistroWatch themselves @ https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in 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 was accessed each day, nothing more.

1 MX Linux 2760<
2 EndeavourOS 2313<
3 Mint 2078
5 Pop!_OS 1196=
6 Fedora 1186<
7 Ubuntu 1135
9 Lite 740<
10 openSUSE 724

Kinda different from article list..