I’m not a super-savvy user. Can someone explain to me why I should care about X vs Wayland? Everything seems to work with X, and as I’ve just read, many programs don’t support Wayland. So will this transition just lead to lots of broken software once someone decides they won’t ship with X by default anymore?

[–] bargo@mastodon.tn 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

@bleistift2 @addie Wayland will be the only display server, it's impossible to deny it, for example KDE defaults to Wayland & Gnome is 100% detached from X11, the deletion of X11 is coming in the future
plus, X11 is full of spaghetti code and no one, and I mean no one, supports it anymore, Wayland came to correct that, plus if you have a laptop with a hybrid GPU, you must switch manually between for example Nvidia & Intel, on Wayland everything is done automatically, etc

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Wayland isn't a display server, it is a protocol. There is no source code for Wayland only a set of standards.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

if you have a laptop with a hybrid GPU

That is something I really care about. Thanks!

[Edit: I just checked. Something is handling the switch automatically on my system]

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