Now this is beyond doubt that Ubuntu is the most searched Linux distribution. Most websites/forums claim that Ubuntu is the most popular one. Okey, agreed that Ubuntu is the most popular; what about the rest ?

Now Distrowatch reports the top 10 distributions as

1 Ubuntu
2 openSUSE
3 Fedora
4 Mint
5 PCLinuxOS
6 Debian
7 Mandriva
8 Dreamlinux
9 Sabayon
10 Damn Small

When I took a Google trend data, I found that apart from Ubuntu, only Debain, Fedora/Redhat and OpenSUSE/SUSE had the best search hits. Here is a link from Google trends depicting the comparative ratio of the five.

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