It seems to me, at least as far as my Google Autocompletes and general beginning linux searches, that many people who are new to linux are searching "problem $x ubuntu" not "problem $x linux."
That's just my anecdotal evidence, Linux, when it is adopted by new people seem to run Ubuntu and aren't as much aware of other distros, I for one don't know much about Arc or Redhat or too much about how they differ.
Well, sabayon, the binary derivative, is stuck in the top 6 of distrowatch for a while. I don't think things are going downhill there. Competing with debian derivatives is no joke, considering that the tech skill required to adopt the distro is far higher. Beating Arch on a live CD :)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] threadEven "linux" alone seems to have a downward trend by that measurement: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux&ctab=0&geo=all&...
That's just my anecdotal evidence, Linux, when it is adopted by new people seem to run Ubuntu and aren't as much aware of other distros, I for one don't know much about Arc or Redhat or too much about how they differ.