Something like pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun where I can see the popularity of the packages by category, but with many more categories and being able to see which packages are trending.
Here are some related websites that aren’t exactly what I’m looking for:
- aur.archlinux.org
- www.archlinux.de/packages
- repology.org
- pkgs.org
- release-monitoring.org
- reposcope.com
I wrote a script that uses the data from pkgstats.archlinux.de but it doesn’t distinguish between software and libraries so it’s very difficult to find anything useful in the output.
This is such a great idea, I never knew I wanted this either (and now I do).
Would be a great bit of feedback for the Arch devs, or even a pull request.
One way to identify libs could be looking at the package contents list since libs would write predominantly to /usr/lib and /usr/include (ignore writes to /usr/share) and probably no writes to /usr/bin. Not perfect but could give you a vague idea how to differentiate between bins and libs.
Debian’s popcon has by-category lists, so e.g. here are the most popular packages from the category “shells”, sorted by most installed:
Flathub.org but flatpaks need longer to develop, no not very up to date
I used perplexity.ai to get this which gives a couple sources you may want to consider.
According to various sources, including DistroWatch and Tecmint, the most popular Linux distributions in 2023 are: Linux Mint Manjaro Ubuntu Debian Fedora Zorin OS Solus Elementary OS Arch Linux CentOS
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