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Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (10 children)

err, why? actually it can be skewed against wayland(wayland users tend to be more security aware), and why the suprise, KDE, GNOME are wayland from the get go, steam deck too, hyprland and sway etc

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It can skew either way equally. We're just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re discounting the trend here. Assuming the methodology is consistent, over a short time we’re seeing a noticeable change, bias or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I'm not actually. Does anybody doubt that wayland use is increasing? Distros have increasingly been making it the default. I'd be surprised if use weren't increasing. In fact it might be under-represented in this data depending on whether all distros are being accurately represented or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But the change in the numbers is not useless since the psychology of the Wayland users vs. x11 didn't change

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That seems probable but was there any doubt that Wayland use is increasing? Wayland has been changing to the default distro by distro. The only reason this is "news" is because somebody has claimed that "Wayland usage has overtaken X11".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wait Steam Deck now runs Desktop mode in Wayland?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    plasma do, unless valve changed that

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