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Shmerl May 25, 2018
For some reason, in the trends view, many graphs start from July 2016 (instead of August 2017), so their left half is mostly empty.


Last edited by Shmerl on 25 May 2018 at 1:49 pm UTC
devland May 25, 2018
For some reason, in the trends view, many graphs start from July 2016 (instead of August 2017), so their left half is mostly empty.

If I remember correctly, some stats started being counted after most of the PC info stats started being counted on this site.
Shmerl May 25, 2018
If I remember correctly, some stats started being counted after most of the PC info stats started being counted on this site.

They are configurable I suppose? So beginning point can be simply adjusted for some of them.
stretch611 May 25, 2018
Any reason why we need to update every month?

I know I rarely get a new computer or significant upgrade more than once a year. We can always manually update at any time... maybe once a quarter is a good reminder?
Shmerl May 25, 2018
Any reason why we need to update every month?

That's simply to count only active users and to confirm real data. Once a month is better than once a quarter, for more accurate counting.


Last edited by Shmerl on 25 May 2018 at 2:18 pm UTC
Hamish May 25, 2018
Any reason why we need to update every month?
That's simply to count only active users and to confirm real data. Once a month is better than once a quarter, for more accurate counting.
Besides, it is also for Gamification. Every month we get to play "click the link". ;)
axredneck May 25, 2018
Feature request: stats about gaming under X vs Wayland.
Shmerl May 25, 2018
Feature request: stats about gaming under X vs Wayland.

Good suggestion! I'm planning to try to switch to Wayland with upcoming KDE Plasma 5.13, since they finally will release mouse configuration support for libinput.


Last edited by Shmerl on 25 May 2018 at 7:53 pm UTC
Arthur May 25, 2018
From reading all the issues people have with Wayland still, I've not even bothered to try it yet. Maybe 2020 will be the year of Wayland on the desktop.
Shmerl May 25, 2018
Sooner than that. KDE is mostly in good shape already with Wayland support. Now we need big applications like Firefox and Wine to catch up, so they won't need to use XWayland as a fallback.
Spud13y May 26, 2018
Can you even game on Wayland? Maybe with open-source AMD drivers? Last I heard you can't do that with NVidia proprietary drivers and Wayland.
axredneck May 26, 2018
Can you even game on Wayland? Maybe with open-source AMD drivers? Last I heard you can't do that with NVidia proprietary drivers and Wayland.
Especially on KDE.
nox May 26, 2018
Can you even game on Wayland? Maybe with open-source AMD drivers? Last I heard you can't do that with NVidia proprietary drivers and Wayland.

You can game with about the same performance on AMD with both Gnome and KDE. Nvidia however doesn't want to support xwayland, so you'd have to only play games that only use wayland which is rare atm.
Shmerl May 27, 2018
Can you even game on Wayland? Maybe with open-source AMD drivers? Last I heard you can't do that with NVidia proprietary drivers and Wayland.

With Mesa you can. With Nvidia - not sure (depends on DE). Linux gamers are gradually ditching Nvidia anyway, so it's not going to be a problem in the long term.

There was some effort to support Wayland through Vulkan instead of EGL, bypassing this whole mess of GBM vs EGLstreams, so that can help Nvidia users in some future too, but for that all DEs should support Vulkan based compositor as well.


Last edited by Shmerl on 27 May 2018 at 3:17 am UTC
Phlebiac May 27, 2018
Nvidia however doesn't want to support xwayland

I think it's more accurate to say upstream developers didn't want to support an additional code path (EGLStreams) when they had already settled on GBM. However, latest Xorg does have EGLStreams support for XWayland included.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-Better-EGLStreams

so you'd have to only play games that only use wayland which is rare atm.

Any games using SDL have native Wayland support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL-Wayland-XDG-Shell
nox May 27, 2018
Nvidia however doesn't want to support xwayland

I think it's more accurate to say upstream developers didn't want to support an additional code path (EGLStreams) when they had already settled on GBM. However, latest Xorg does have EGLStreams support for XWayland included.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-Better-EGLStreams

Alright, thanks for adding information to that.

so you'd have to only play games that only use wayland which is rare atm.
Any games using SDL have native Wayland support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL-Wayland-XDG-Shell

While this is true, you'll need SDL patched for wayland, which last time we tested didn't work at all (about 2 months ago).
So, can you really recommend gaming on wayland with nvidia...?
Phlebiac May 27, 2018
So, can you really recommend gaming on wayland with nvidia...?

Can't vouch for it personally; like others, I figured I would stick with X11 in the short term for less gaming hassle.
Arthur May 28, 2018
Sooner than that. KDE is mostly in good shape already with Wayland support. Now we need big applications like Firefox and Wine to catch up, so they won't need to use XWayland as a fallback.
Really depends what your wants/needs are. Besides the NVIDIA situation, and the fact that most games will need XWayland for the foreseeable future, from what I've read there are still various input issues, e.g. mouse cursor issues with games. And then there's the fact that the screen recording and screen sharing tools people have been using don't work, copy and paste seems to work differently meaning potential issues with password managers and more.
And then there are general bugs that always come with huge rearchitecture efforts.

Do keep in mind this is something I've only read about Wayland, also fairly recently, but I don't have first-hand experience so I can't guarantee all of these are still issues. But for me even one of these would make switching now more annoying than the benefits touted.
Shmerl May 28, 2018
Do keep in mind this is something I've only read about Wayland, also fairly recently, but I don't have first-hand experience so I can't guarantee all of these are still issues.

The easiest way to figure it out is to test it and note what doesn't yet work for your use case.


Last edited by Shmerl on 28 May 2018 at 1:08 pm UTC
Arthur May 29, 2018
But why do that now and not wait for a couple years? What I have works fine right now, and I'm using Kubuntu 18.04 with an NVIDIA card so it would most likely not work well anyway.
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