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by BeetleB 985 days ago
> Every bit of effort spent fixing a bug in X to help the fraction of users still using it is effort that could have gone into fixing the bugs in Wayland that leave people using X in the first place.

What fraction is that? I thought X still had the larger user share.

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To answer my own question: 70% of Linux gamers use X. Definitely not a small fraction.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics/

They don't care about user shares. Why would they?