Windows Users download Ubuntu

Today I was downloading Ubuntu 7.10 desktop i386 iso and came across an interesting fact.
I was using kTorrent and was delighted to see more than 1400 seeders and around 150 leechers.
There were seeders from many countries prominent among them being

1. U.S
2. U.K
3. Germany
4. Italy
5. France
6. Finland
7. Canada
8. Brazil
9. Argentina
10. Spain
    
11. Sweden
    
12. Switzerland and
    
13. Mexico.
    

Now the total number of peers from a specific country, whom I was connected, was varying however the maximum number of peers were from the U.S, Finland and Germany. Now this data can vary from person to person and I cannot comment upon the usage. Google trends does shows a better stats about searched made regarding Ubuntu in different countries.

I also observed the torrent client used by the peers I was connected to and came across an interesting discovery; the maximum number of peers were using utorrent. The torrent clients I saw can be listed as

1. utorrent
2. Ktorrent
3. Azureus
4. BitTorrent and
   
5. Transmission

The above list is in the descending order with maximum numbers of peers using utorrent and Transmission being used by least number of seeders. There were others too but their number was insignificant.
Now utorrent is a Windows only client, this makes this observation very interesting. Imagine, the maximum number of Ubuntu peers are actually using some version of Windows :). This indicates the growing awareness of Ubuntu among Windows users.
I really wish that those Windows users do give Ubuntu a fair try and then decide if they want to go back to Windows.

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