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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What way do you imagine would be more precise?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What way do you imagine would be more precise?

Unavoidable analytics, apparently. Yay?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well do you want useful stats or not /s

But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Tbf a lot of that stigma has to do with trust violation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A method that attempts to collect data from a randomized or representative population rather than relying on self-report.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The fact that you need consent to get this data would make a randomized approach impossible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It just may be possible that accurate poll data on such things isn't possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Steam hardware survey but that will skew towards gamers. That said, it would be a good indicator on how compatible Wayland is.