I also run Variety on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Now I don't use this distro much these days, but I did a quick analysis of its history.text and it shows the following:
Of 49 wallpapers
2002-11-*** has been shown 6 times including twice in four changes
04.jpg has been shown 3 times including twice in three changes
06.jpg has been shown 3 times including twice in four changes
12 wallpapers have never been shown.
Slightly better than on Mint, but still wouldn't call it properly random.
I also run Variety on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Now I don't use this distro much these days, but I did a quick analysis of its history.text and it shows the following:
Of 49 wallpapers
2002-11-*** has been shown 6 times including twice in four changes
04.jpg has been shown 3 times including twice in three changes
06.jpg has been shown 3 times including twice in four changes
12 wallpapers have never been shown.
Slightly better than on Mint, but still wouldn't call it properly random.
First run date is the same as Mint 25 Oct 2013.