Edan Osborne:
> Hi,
>
> I just read the recent post about replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus in
> the Windows install guide. However, something struck me as odd. The post
> mentioned that "people who install Tails from macOS represent less than
> 10% of installations nowadays."
>
> My first question is simple. How exactly did Tails arrive at this figure
> without telemetry?
Hi,
I wrote this based on the downloads of balenaEtcher from our website:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16381#note_9871
Back in 2019, downloads for the Mac version of balenaEtcher represented
only 6% of downloads. Since then, Apple rolled out M1 and M2 processors
who cannot run Tails, so the fraction of Tails users on Mac probably
decreased significantly.
I didn't do the extra work of updating this number before writing the
post, so I extrapolated with a pinch of salt and wrote "less than 10%".
I would guess that it's probably less than 5% these days, unfortunately.
> However, that's not the only thing I noticed. This article does not
> appear to be on the mailing list, and the XMPP chat appears to be
> silent; so, my second question: is this normal?
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Best,
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sajolida
The Tor Project — UX Designer
