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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not really surprising considering that (IIRC) it's the default on the Gnome variants of Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora

But keep in mind that voluntary data tends to be pretty skewed

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

voluntary data tends to be pretty skewed

Yea and a strangely (to me) large proportion of people seem vehemently opposed to apps even asking to collect usage data, which is incredibly helpful for developers, putting aside the more controversial things like privacy/marketing uses of the data.

Personally I don't believe for one second that Wayland has actually surpassed the install base of X11-like display servers.