• Vilian@lemmy.ca
    128·
    7 months ago

    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

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      332·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        61·
        7 months ago

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

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          7 months 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.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 months ago

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

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 months 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”.

          • Vilian@lemmy.ca
            1·
            6 months ago

            yep, plasma was still x11 from default when steam deck launched, plasma 6 switched to wayland as default, now i don’t know if steam deck was updated to plasma 6