On 2019-04-09 11:00 a.m., Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
On 5/04/19 15:35,jma...@mozilla.com wrote:
Currently linux32 makes up about .77% of our total users. This is
still 1M+ users on any given week.
I asked jmaher what percentage of our Linux users this is. It's 21%.
This doesn't seem small.
On top of that, we know that not all distros have telemetry enabled and
so we won't be counting those either (Debian is the largest).
I don't know how many users we need to keep supporting a platform, but
this seems like quite a few people to throw under the bus.
I'm not sure where :jmaher got his original figure, but I just did up a
crude analysis counting the number of clients_daily entries on Linux
day-by-day over the past year reporting x86 (32-bit) vs. x86-64 (64-bit):
https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/62267
The 21% number looks like it was accurate about a year ago. At this
point, we're hovering around 15% of reported usage day-to-day.
Obviously this isn't a complete analysis and doesn't validate that each
client ping represents a real user (or the distinction between e.g. a
ping representing a user who uses Firefox once a week vs. once a day),
but it does suggest (as intuition would tell us) that linux32 is of
diminishing interest. If you want a more scientific answer here, I'd
recommend engaging Firefox data science:
https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/Firefox+Data+Science#FirefoxDataScience-initiatingaproject
Will
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