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Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

13 hours ago

> Wayland sessions make up 82% of all sessions with telemetry enabled.

That is a significant caveat.

Do you have any reason to believe that Wayland users are more likely than X users to enable telemetry?

  • The reason Wayland users might be more likely to opt into telemetry is because they see Wayland as "developing" and therefore needing that user data for development purposes. I have no idea what the incidence would actually be, but there is certainly a potential selection bias in there.

  • Nothing solid. It would be entertaining if it were the opposite. But unless we have a really good reason to think we know which way it leans, the unknown unknown means I wouldn't want to trust the numbers.

  • On a distro with wayland as the default, users are probably defaulting to allowing telemetry as well. (maybe? Just a guess ...)

    • KDE telemetry is strictly opt-in, it is something that you are prompted for during the first setup wizard.