Mageia #1 @ Distrowatch

[arms10]

Top ranking over a 7-day data span. Congratulations!

[mechatotoro]

Yes, for the third day in a row.
Although going up is fairly common after a new release, it was nice to see Mageia 3 go over Mint, which has been the uncontested #1 for quite a long time. Of course, it is not that I have anything against Mint, but it is good to see Mageia go up.

To be honest, Mageia 3 was my most expected distro release, but I was hesitant to install it because I was quite satisfied with Mageia 2. However, after I installed it (x86_64 DVD) to my desktop and laptop, I must say BIG THANKS to all the Mageia team. The developers truly raised the quality bar: everything is working better than with Mageia 2 so far. I was a bit afraid of degraded performance (after reading so much about the woes of other distros), but I can say that Mageia has only improved since version 1.

Kudos, Mageia team!

[doktor5000]

Well, that doesn't say much. If you look for the last month, Debian is in second place above Mageia, as they also just released recently which generated quite some traffic.
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
If overall counters are rising longtime, that would be better than 1st place for some short timespan