http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/stats-show-ubuntu-not-losing-ground-to-linux-mint/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28OMG%21+Ubuntu%21%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
As ZDNet report, the Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report of Operating Systems visiting Wikimedia pages* in October 2011 show:
16,924,000 hits from Ubuntu
556,000 hits from Linux Mint
Half a million computers using your OS is not a bad stat at all, but it does challenge the often agressive posturing of many in the anti-Unity brigade that Unity has been nothing short of a disaster for Ubuntu.
If we look fast-forward to look at Wikimedia stats for December 2011 then things look even brighter for Ubuntu: -
29,432,000 hits from Ubuntu
624,000 hits from Linux Miint
There’s a healthy 68,000 hit increase from Linux Mint users – certainly indicating a surge in its use. But look at Ubuntu – almost 13 million hits up from October, which, perhaps not coincidentally, saw the release of Ubuntu 11.10.