Individual GNOME applications [LWN.net]

Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jun 29, 2025 2:40 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Individual GNOME applications by linuxrocks123
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

> I would be very surprised if more than 50% of Linux desktops were currently Wayland. XFCE, for instance, does not support it, and XFCE is very popular among individual users.

"Very popular" according to what objective metric?

...I would be surprised if even 15% of the total "desktop linux" install base is using anything other than GNOME or KDE.

But let's take Debian's limited opt-in popcon stats (about 300K respondents). xfce, kde, gnome, mate, and cinnamon come to about 21%, 21%, 42%, 11%, and 4% respectively. That gives about 59% of Wayland-capable environments. mate will probably be there in its next release.

> Among corporate users, a large percentage of them are probably still on RHEL 7 and therefore very unlikely to be running Wayland.

Given that RHEL7 dropped out of support a literal year ago (June 30, 2024), I'm gonna have to go [citation needed] on this one.

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