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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