• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    6 months ago

    Depends on how you measure it. A lot of IoT and wearables run Wayland, for instance (Tizen, Steam Deck, a bunch of specialised IoT stuff). Also don’t forget the millions of Chromebook running Wayland on top of Linux. With my watch, my Deck, and my laptop running Wayland versus my desktop running X11, I live in a Wayland household.

    I’m not sure what the general user is running, I would say X11 as well, mostly because a lot of Linux users have Nvidia hardware and Nvidia’s crapper drivers still struggle with Wayland. I think it’ll be a few years before you could say that the majority of people who know what Linux is, are on Wayland

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      6 months ago

      With most of the big distros defaulting to Wayland and NVIDIA finally under control, I expect most new installs will be Wayland ( and stay Wayland ) by the end of the year. So the Linux noon numbers may be 90%. I would be surprised if Wayland does not hit 80% overall by the time we hit 2026.