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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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I wonder how representative that is of actual software used. I would imagine hardware probes are run from installers and live systems quite frequently. I would certainly not expect several percentage points of "neither" in practical settings.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Neither" are Linux systems that don't use a display server, i.e. CLI only systems.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Those poor Nvidia users lol.

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

I mean, by now everyone should know not to buy Nvidia hardware if you want to run Linux on it.

It's been more than 10 years since Linus' finger to Nvidia.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm currently on Wayland with Nvidia hardware and it's running fine tbh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yup, same. especially after explicit sync lands in a couple of days, even the rest of the minor problems should vanish.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Reporting is done by users who voluntarily upload their system specs via
# hw-probe -all -upload

So not skewed at all...

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

Do you have a better way of measuring it?
In what direction would voluntary self-reporting of all system specs skew the display server statistic (and why)?

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