Source: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server
Reporting is done by users who voluntarily upload their system specs via
# hw-probe -all -upload
who is using linux through their web browser
this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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would that show up as their display server though? surely VMWare et al run some other display server on the backend and then stream to clients via VNC?
No, that's why the web frontend graph is at 0%.
And those systems don't have a display server, they open up a web server to interact with.
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Yeh, I'll wait until the bugs are ironed out and my distro (mint) determines it's stable. No need to start asking for troubles when everything is working smoothly.
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respects to "unknown" and tty users.
fuck display servers. All my homies love ASCII display tech.
Seeing unknown: "What's he building in there? ...we have a right to know."
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Framebuffers and TUIs: are we a joke to you?
mmmm lack of proper double buffering on i3wm my beloved
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Every now and then I think 'OK, this time I surely should be able to switch over to Wayland!'
And there's always one application or use case that stops me.
Yeah, I'm on nvidia which hasn't helped either...
For What application you face issue? I’m curious as XWayland should provide backward compatibility.
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Yeah, had a rtx 2060 and sidegraded to an intel arc a750 just to avoid the nvidia xwayland issues.
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These days the unique use case X was designed for is very, very niche. For everyone else, Wayland is the way to go.
I'm sure Nvidia will become stable on wayland by the time xfce also migrates lol
Pretty much all the Xfce4 apps support Wayland. We just need Xfce4 panel and the desktop.
NVIDIA is likely to be stable on Wayland next month. If you wait for other people to ship you code, it will arrive with the fall releases ( eg. Ubuntu 24.10 ).
Xfce is targeting 4.20 for full Wayland support. If you use Xfce 4.20 on kernel 6.9, you may break the Internet.
Here's a smaller sample size (2417 people at the time of writing) but all you need to do is fill in your details on the website: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics/
X is at 66% and Wayland is at 33% for GamingOnLinux.
Wayland has a mouse capture bug in proton / wine. It particularly seems to be an issue in FPS games. That may contributing to slower adoption for Linux gamers.
Speaking of Valve, they probably have numbers for Wayland vs X too, unfortunately they don't seem to publish this statistic in their survey.
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