Linked by pepa on Fri 9th Nov 2012 23:18 UTC
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They don't measure up the consequences of Unity yet. There is a lot of people still running old versions [...] Unity based Ubuntu will be the smallest slice.

Do you have any data supporting that? That's how it works, if you put forward some hypothesis - not just writing "obviously" and such.

And if you'd at least look at those Wikimedia stats, you'd see that there is some data there WRT Ubuntu point releases - 3 of them listed, 12.04 two times (x86 and amd64) at 129M in total (that is already mroe than all other distros combined), and the only pre-Unity that has enough to be listed is 10.4 (LTS, I guess) at 50M.

Plus, you'd have to explain why Ubuntu registered such relatively massive growth in the years when it came default with Unity (and why other distros clearly lost hits in the same time, hmm...)

BTW, a disclosure: I don't even use Unity, don't really care for it one way or the other (but, as far personal anecdotes go: I have around some people which use it, and clearly like it)

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