• JASN_DE@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

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

    So not skewed at all…

    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      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)?

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Do you have a better way of measuring it?

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

            • refalo@programming.dev
              0·
              2 months ago

              Well do you want useful stats or not /s

              But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

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

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      0·
      2 months ago

      err, why? actually it can be skewed against wayland(wayland users tend to be more security aware), and why the suprise, KDE, GNOME are wayland from the get go, steam deck too, hyprland and sway etc

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • refalo@programming.dev
        0·
        2 months ago

        Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

        And another commenter said:

        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.

        • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

          What is the basis for that assumption?

          And another commenter said:

          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.

          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.

          Anti Commercial-AI license