I want to say thank you for all the wonderful work that the Mozilla team does to create this product. Fantastic. I am equally impressed that you took the time to ask some basic questions like "what percentage of our Linux users are using ALSA vs Pulse". That was very courteous, but I don't think it comes from an understanding of how Linux is used in some very common deployment scenario's.
It might happen from time to time that a new user starts their digital life on the Linux platform, but I would bet that most users are migrants. A new user might click through dialogs and accept defaults, including telling others about what he does, but a regular Linux user is little more paranoid. The administrators of such systems would be very adept and likely arrived at Linux as a solution for it's scalability. Now when we talk about things that scale, we are usually talking about huge numbers, in the thousands and tens of thousands. Organizations with those kinds of numbers don't usually like be counted, and so the very adept admins( the biggest distributors of linux ) will disable telemetry as a part of their deployment process. Check SALT, Chef, Puppet, CF Engine and so on. In short, by relying on telemetry to determine what Linux users do or have, you have likely limited your perspective to the newest, least knowledgable and most likely to leave users available on the platform. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
