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GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If we take distro defaults into account, it's possible Arch stats overestimate GNOME market share.

Based on tecmint list, the top 3 distros are Mint, MX Linux, and Endeavour. Their defaults are:

Mint - Cinnamon, MATE
MX Linux - Xfce, Plasma, Fluxbox
Endeavour - Plasma

Granted, the fourth one (Debian) does default to GNOME, but your typical Debian user is more experienced, so it's less likely they stick to the default.

...I wish I had actual data instead of a bunch of guesses. :-/

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is why some level of telemetry can be useful. That ranking is just DistroWatch rank which might poorly reflect actual popularity

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Indeed. Sadly, corporations abused telemetry so much that it makes users automatically distrust software with it - even when it's opt-in. As such I'm not surprised it isn't more common, specially in the Linux ecosystem.