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Yes, I know that the ranking is not a good metric of real world use.

Just posting this because MX Linux has been in the number one spot for a long time (2 years perhaps?) and it's surprising to see some other distro on the top of their site.

https://distrowatch.com/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i guess the bots that game the 'rankings' went down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I cannot think of a single reason bots would be pimping MX Linux.

It's a pretty low key project. Antix gets more "noisy" than MX does, and that's not even much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

IIRC, its because there is a vulnerability in some websites at https://example.com/mx so, since distrowatch has mx linux at https://distrowatch.com/mx a lot of bots will try to go to there and push its ratings up accidentally.