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I do like how the wayland usage statistic are based on wayland apps crashing more than x11 apps
by mug1 4mo ago
I do like how the wayland usage statistic are based on wayland apps crashing more than x11 apps
- ahartmetz 4mo agoCrash reports are only mentioned as confirmation of other statistics, and in any case, the vast majority of crashes have nothing to do with the window system used.
- account42 4mo agoThe other "stats" being "all my buddies use Wayland".
- akimbostrawman 4mo agoInstead of rage baiting you could have just read the blog post to figure out its opt in telemetry, crash reports (most of which won't be x11/Wayland related) is being used as an additional metric to confirm that trend.
- MBCook 4mo agoHow do you get that? They showed the statistics based on their telemetry tools and said they match crash data. Not that it was 100% from crashes. Also the fact they can tell which one is in use does not mean that’s the reason it crashed. It could be crashes due to bad network handling or file corruption or something that has nothing to do with the GUI.
- tosti 4mo agoLinux users are more likely not to opt-in and actively opt-out of spyware, telemetry, or whatever you want to call it. The ones that don't are more likely those who leave things on defaults, are involved with the project or a distro, or similar. No, I don't have anything that backs this up. The statistics they're using can never be accurate, by virtue of being free software that ships on privacy concious distros to privacy cincious people. There was a study that backs up this claim, but I'm not google. OTOH, xfce is doing fine.
- akimbostrawman 4mo agoSince KDE telemetry is privacy conscious too, I as a privacy conscious linux user see little issue with enabling it.
- nickserv 4mo agoLinux are also more likely to contribute bug reports and crash dumps. Security conscious doesn't mean not getting involved with the community and helping useful projects.
- account42 4mo agoLinux users contribute bug reports to projects that actually care about them and don't leave usability regressions open to decade long bikesheds. KDE is not one of those projects.
- mcosta 4mo agoprivacy concious people use wayland
- superkuh 4mo agoAnd the statistics are only from the latest release, not over all KDE users. They mention this in the text but the disengenuous plot is what people see. >For transparency, the one caveat in all of the above is that I've deliberately always focused on people using the latest Plasma release. We do still have a sizable chunk of users on X11 still using Plasma 5.27. Including them, the total Wayland adoption rate is about 76%.