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

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[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure? I'd actually say the opposite. The types of people who install Ubuntu, Debian, have Chromebooks, etc (which are on Wayland) won't have replied to this survey because they install and forget, but the people who like to rice their systems, use TWMs, etc and have strong opinions on Wayland/SystemD/Flatpaks etc are more likely to reply to this

[–] db2 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 7 months ago

I explained that in the very comment you just replied to.

Some of the most used distros by normal users use Wayland. These people aren't likely to voluntarily send telemetry away by a CLI tool you need to go out of your way to install.