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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Yea, I'm currently using Wayland because Manjaro comes with it but like 90% of the programs I use launch with xwayland anyway. I'm not a developer but can't they just give it proper support for all programs? Like run those programs like they do on X11. Seems pointless if nothing works on it.

Not to mention my laptop with Nvidia graphics, that is just so broken on Wayland I ended up switching it to X11 and I'm very lazy.

[–] Rescuer6394@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

manjaro switched to Wayland??!

i installed it a couple of years ago... should i search on how to switch it to Wayland?

[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I would not bother, Wayland doesn't have many advantages, at least not from my point of view. I would honestly switch my install to X11 if I wasn't lazy.

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