Metrics
Adoption, in public.
Every number on this page is an aggregate: how many, never who. The desktop beacon stores unique installs in HyperLogLogs that cannot name a single install, and the download counts are the ones GitHub publishes for every release. docs/telemetry.md shows the exact bytes behind each count.
Desktop beacon
Installs, counted anonymously.
Reading the beacon summary…
GitHub releases
Downloads, on the public record.
Counting release downloads…