1.

DistroWatch PAGE HIT Ranking Results DO NOT REFLECT the ACTUAL GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION POPULARITY ON THE PLANET but only the DISTRIBUTION POPULARITY OF THE VISITORS of DistroWatch Website and thus cannot be trusted and can be easily manipulated.

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

2.

DistroWatch Major Distributions List is CLEARLY SUBJECTIVE, PROMOTING CERTAIN DISTRIBUTIONS AND NOT EVEN ALPHABETICALLY SORTED.

"There are no figures to back it up"

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

"Major Distributions" Forum Members Numbers and Forum Posts/Threads Numbers can be easily Manipulated via Paid Personnel, Bots and AI Software.

Since there is no way for anyone on the Planet to have ACTUAL COMBINED TELEMETRY DATA FROM EVERY LINUX DISTRIBUTION INSTALLED, everything is SUBJECTIVE.

UNLESS ALL LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS AGREE TO A SINGLE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR REAL TIME TELEMETRY ON A TRULY INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY, ANY DISTRO POPULARITY TOOL WILL NEVER HAVE TRUE DATA.

3.

DistroWatch is Money Oriented and Marketing Oriented and thus Completely Unreliable & Biased, concerning the Linux Distributions Ranking & Visibility:

"If all this sounds depressing, there is some good news for those developers who absolutely and desperately want to have their distribution listed on DistroWatch today. All you need to do is to buy an advertising banner and your distro will be listed straight away. Additionally, your banner will attract extra visitors to your website. Currently the smallest advertising deal available is 100,000 impressions of a standard leaderboard (728x90 pixels), which costs US$220.00 (half of this amount will be donated to open-source software projects as part of the monthly DistroWatch donations programme)."

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=submit

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=advertise

4.

DistroWatch SELLS it's Users Web Browsing Data to HUNDREDS of Companies. DistroWatch DEFAULT Cookie Settings are a Privacy Nightmare.