I think the data source is a bit flawed - "Nr of packages installed on debian" I would say mercurial is more polished on windows, taking tortoisehg into accoun

I think the data source is a bit flawed - "Nr of packages installed on debian" I would say mercurial is more polished on windows, taking tortoisehg into account. Maybe most mercurial users are on windows while most git users are on linux? (now i don't believe that mercurial actually is bigger than git, even on windows, but the data from the post is still dodgy) The "Linux uses git!"-argument is a good one but mercurial has an almost as good one: Firefox. So i don't think that would be an overwhelming factor.