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Not true. Chrome OS uses Wayland and has 40% of the Linux desktop market. (Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... 1.1% Chrome OS vs 1.6% Linux ). Given trends, Chrome OS alone could make Wayland the dominant Linux display server in a couple years.


Chrome OS using wayland is almost as relevant as the fact that Intel uses MINIX in its chipsets is to MINIX's market share, its almost entirely Google internal, with very tight constraints on its environment both in terms of hardware and software, it does not generalize to the general Linux use case, or have much relevance to developers and development outside of Google.

Wayland could just as easily be HypotheticalDisplayFooServ and the result would be the same for everyone that isn't Google.




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