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Amount of CAd users

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How many cad users got FreeCAD?
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jakob wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:06 am How many cad users got FreeCAD?
download count for 0.18.4 is at 40166, I doubt you're gonna get a number more meaningfull, AFAIK freecad doesn't track its users
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adrianinsaval wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:17 pm
jakob wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:06 am How many cad users got FreeCAD?
download count for 0.18.4 is at 40166, I doubt you're gonna get a number more meaningfull, AFAIK freecad doesn't track its users
The download count does not include the versions installed from the default distributions e.g. on Ubuntu.
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UPDATE

At the moment I see a huge increment of 0.19 downloads:

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download_count	127399
Wow!

Also, the number of downloads of the weekly-builds for version 0.20 shoult be taken in consideration (I'm a one of them).
I don't know if the two set of users overlaps at 100%.
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Re: Amount of CAd users

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add to that
"download_count": 34419,
"download_count": 1892,
"download_count": 1100,
for the different windows versions +
"download_count": 31902,
"download_count": 18111,
for the dmg and appimage respectively + however many downloads the weeklies get + all the untracked downloads from the different distros repositories + the ppa + flatpak + snaps

...+however many downloads those weird paid distributions in the microsoft store might get
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Re: Amount of CAd users

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Uh!
So we have:

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FreeCAD-0.19.3-WIN-x64-installer-1.exe			127415
FreeCAD-0.19.3-WIN-x64-installer-2.exe			34568
FreeCAD-0.19.3-WIN-x64-portable.7z			1894
FreeCAD-0.19.3-WIN-x64-portable.zip			1100
FreeCAD_0.19.3-Linux-Conda_glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage	18141
FreeCAD_0.19.3-OSX-x86_64-conda.dmg			31947
							------
							215065
:o
Impressive.
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Giulio Buccini wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:22 pm So we have:
Yes but, you are still underestimating the numbers a lot because you are not counting the majority of Linux users who get distro native packages from distros, our ppa, etc.

And there is also those who download the code, usually via git, and compile there own.

Of course many of us get more than one version. I had the distro FreeCAD, then changed to the two versions from our Ubuntu ppa, and I also compile some more version from source. All on the same computer running Kubuntu Linux.
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Yeah, you're right.
In any case where speaking about a massive number of users.

It would be nice if also a small fraction would translate in donations...
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sgrogan wrote:
uwestoehr wrote:
on 20/01/22 download count for FreeCAD-0.19.3-WIN-x64-installer-1.exe was 127415
today it's 128651
installer-2 is thankfully getting a lot more downloads than -1 (34568 -> 54634, +20K in the same period) but wouldn't it be better to remove installer-1 from the release page? IIRC -2 added some command that was missing due to an incorrect build command.
Also, where the portable downloads updated with that new build or are they the previous one?
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On a worldwide scale, I imagine there are ALOT of users.
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