Re: [Gimp-user] How manu GIMP user are there

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 01/18/2014 01:35 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 20:30 +0100, anis siteduzero wrote:
> > Thank's for this reply
> > Ok i know that its difficult to know how many GIMP user are there but i
> > think that i will have an idea of the number  of GIMP user if someone know
> > nearly how much gimp was downloaded weekly on sourceForge (not the exact
> > number (more the 50000 or less?)
> GIMP is also included with many Linux distributions (I use Mageia Linux,
> which includes it), making it even harder to guess.

All the "point release" of Gimp on I checked Sourceforge were downloaded 
from 4.5 to 7 million times. I don't know how much user overlap there is 
between these versions, but even assuming all users upgrade regularly 
that's still 5 millions possible users.

I distribute two sets of Gimp python scripts via sourceforge and the 
sourceforge statistics give the OS of the downloaders; on one collection 
there are 57% downloads from Windows and on the other 72%. Linux is a 
decent second (32% and 21%). OSX is far behind (2.5% (less than 
"unknown") and 4.5%).

Of course this is a  skewed statistic:
- Python support was not native on windows, so Windows may be 
under-represented,
- Scripts are more likely to be downloaded by less casual users.
- Stats show the operating system used for the download, not the one on 
which th script runs (there are Android downloads....)

But it is coherent with what I see on forums (a vast majority of Windows 
users). So if you have a believable statistic for Windows users at 
25-30% more for the other platforms.