Hardware for Linux offers something called a Probe. It snapshots your computer’s hardware state and uploads it to their public database with a unique identifier allowing you to share it with a link and contribute to helping FOSS creators spots trends among many other things like the HDD/SSD Desktop-Class Reliability Test study.
Probes are available in AppImage/Docker/Snap/Flatpak format - how to guide.
They also use the database to create cool charts like these!
A few example screenshots:
Step aside distrowatch! Here’s the market share among probes last year…
(20.10/20.04/18.04 Ubuntu combines to 38.31%)
Display server market share among probes last year…
Desktop market share among probes last year…
