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[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You haven't actually read that article which keeps getting reposted did you?

Some of it is stuff like "not all window managers do xxx", a lot of it is "my specific app (which might even be commercial and rather than bug the company who in paid thousands of dollars, let's blame Wayland). And yeah, should we wait until every window manager is 100% until we do anything. That's a generic statement, and they don't name them for a reason.

Oh, I use xkill, and it doesn't work. Well yeah, and you shouldn't necessarily be using it in xorg these days either lol

There are some valid things, but if you read through a lot of the beginning, it's actually just an opinion running around in circles.

You could literally halve that list pretty easily

And some things like DRM lease, I looked up, and it is supported by xwayland these days.

Some of it is stuff like "if the window manager crashes, you'll lose your session". Well yeah, that code would be in xorg instead, so it could crash there instead

Many xorg developers have also basically called xorg hot garbage..

It's funny how that keep saying xorg supports xxx. But if we look at the history, stuff like compiz and dri and such was basically tacked on. And that's the problem. Xorg was never designed for GPUs. It was designed for VGA cards like Tseng labs

It does some things better in Wayland already. The 15 year delay was in part because of NVIDIA screwing everyone around, and wasn't the fault of Wayland

If we're going to get pedantic about app support like the article, waydroid is broken on xorg as an example...

[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Actually, looking through it again, and its even more hilarious when I take a second look.

Another good example "Wayland is biased toward Linux and breaks BSD". The reference is from the NetBSD blog. The Netbsd marketshare is huge, so it's really important everyone holds back for them. The funny thing is that even gnome is missing features on NetBSD: https://wiki.netbsd.org/GNOME/ . So, should Wayland fix their OS for them?

To be clear for 90% of that whole link you've posted, it isn't the Wayland Development teams responsibility to pick up slack on other projects. It sucks that they won't be there for the beginning of the transition, but, if we transition earlier, they'll prioritise getting their crap together

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