Less Than 10% Of Firefox Users On Linux Are Running Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Less Than 10% Of Firefox Users On Linux Are Running Wayland

Thanks to Mozilla's Telemetry capabilities, there is some interesting insight to how many Linux desktop users are still relying on an X.Org (X11) Server without Wayland...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-Wayland-X11-Stats

[Volta]

Next year it will be opposite.

[LubosD]

No wonder. Plasma with Wayland is still horribly buggy for me. It looks OK at start, but it doesn't take too long until something in the environment (i.e. not just a specific app) fails so horribly I have to return to X11 to continue working.

Wayland with GNOME? Well, at least on Ubuntu, Thunderbird seems to confuse the window/task manager. How's that even possible? Still the case in Ubuntu 21.10.

[shmerl]

Not surprised when Plasma has such major deal breaker bugs still. But it's getting better, so yeah, it should start growing soon.

[darkbasic]

Does Fedora disable telemetry? Otherwise the results would be heavily flawed...

[SWY1985]

Well, by default Firefox uses X on all major distros. One has to jump through hoops to get Firefox on Wayland on anything other than Gnome.

I recently installed CentOS Stream 9 and it even uses X by default on Gnome.

I've been using Firefox on Wayland exclusively and it's running without issue for me. Just wish it was easier to change the default.

[RichyK]

How should we interpret this graph? Even with the explanations, I fail to grasp it. What exactly is on the Y-axis?

[milkylainen]

Does Fedora disable telemetry? Otherwise the results would be heavily flawed...

Was wondering the same. There is no way those results are sane.

[andre30correia]

Was wondering the same. There is no way those results are sane.

fedora is not so popular, most of people uses ubuntu, mint and manjaro

[milkylainen]

fedora is not so popular, most of people uses ubuntu, mint and manjaro

It has nothing to do with distro choice.
Look at the data. There is no way a large userbase average fluctuates like this.
Because 2-3% of the userbase does not use wayland on weekends? Or something?
I don't know how to interpret those fluctuations.