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Not very weird by modern standards
Authored by: ailuromancy on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 06:59 AM EDT

Years ago a survey showed most developers used Gnome or KDE - the total for the two was over 100% because plenty used both. The (wildly inaccurate) total is now 75%. If about 10% still use both, then about 30% of Xorg users use neither.

I got these modern figures from pop-con data. The following are the percentage of pop-con users that used Xorg recently that also use the given package recently:

  • 56% gnome-panel
  • 18% kde-runtime
  • 5.5% twm
  • 4.8% xfwm4
  • 2.5% openbox

(There are all sorts of things wrong with these figures - I may not have chosen the best package name to decide if a window manager is used. I only searched for window managers I know the names of. I discarded results under 1%. Trinity and MATE did not show up as they are not in the Debian archive. Gnome gets a high score because it is the default. These are counts of machines, not users. Multi-user machines and multi-machine users could confuse the figures as much as people who do not use exactly one window manager.)

If you have better numbers, please speak up.

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