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atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

So because one cannot know which type of people submit data to the site it should be disregarded? That’s basically saying any poll or questionnaire with anonymous yet unique answers are invalid. That’s a pretty bad argument.

This is basically a survey or poll. You want people to provide you with data about what they’re running. To get an accurate view of the entire population you need a representative and randomized sample. If you’re relying entirely on self-reported data you’re not going to be getting a reliably randomized subset of people. You’ll get people who are motivated to report their usage to a third party. That can lead to persistent biases in the data.

It may be that Wayland use is being under represented because the people reporting want to show that “X11 is still king!” Or it could be that this website is shared frequently with certain user groups (e.g. in some arch (btw) forum or something) and so you’re getting a skew towards that population and away from the whole.

We don’t know who these users are and we can’t “offset” for those factors. And the data isn’t reliably randomized so it’s subject to those biases whether we know about them or not.

Though as another person pointed out the trend itself may be of some interest if the population being polled is consistent. Though I doubt anybody suspected that Wayland use is NOT increasing?

atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

Yes. It just may be possible that accurate poll data on such things isn’t possible.

atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

I’m not actually. Does anybody doubt that wayland use is increasing? Distros have increasingly been making it the default. I’d be surprised if use weren’t increasing. In fact it might be under-represented in this data depending on whether all distros are being accurately represented or not.

atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

A method that attempts to collect data from a randomized or representative population rather than relying on self-report.

atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

It can skew either way equally. We’re just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

atzanteol , to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

Do you have a better way of measuring it?

No better way of measuring doesn’t mean this is a good way of measuring.

atzanteol , to linux in Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland

“Wayland - it’s not us, it’s you”

atzanteol , to linux in superfile - A pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager

It has a font requirement? That’s just weird…

atzanteol , to selfhosted in How to detect problems on computer?

If something you’re running has a memory leak then it doesn’t matter how much RAM you have.

You can try adding memory limits to your containers to see if that limits the splash damage. That’s to say you would hopefully see only one container (the bad one) dying.

atzanteol , to linux in Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0

"That’s* what you meant when you said this???

I’ve always wondered why we even bother with SUID commands. Why not just log in as root?

atzanteol , to linux in Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.

Yes.

atzanteol , to linux in Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0

So just login as root to your system then. You’ll be fine.

atzanteol , to linux in Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0

sudo and friends allow you to gain root access while not enabling the root account. If the root account has no credentials then nobody is guessing your password and logging in as an admin.

On a multi-user system it allows for multiple admins without sharing a password. It also allows providing admin access for “some” things but not others.

atzanteol , to linux in Suggestions for filesystem.

NTFS has never been well supported on Linux. Any native filesystem will be fine.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in What Calendar and To Do solution do you recommend?

I love todo-txt! As a heavy cli user it’s the quickest and easiest to use todo “system” I’ve found.

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