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So let’s talk about this Wayland thing (pointieststick.com)
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Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately. So today, let’s talk about it!

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[-] ono@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have misunderstood me. I don't use or promote Wayland, mainly for the very reasons you just listed. But I do recognize that it has the potential to solve real problems that are deeply embedded in X11. If/when it gets there, and fixes various deficiencies that it has today, I expect I will have a good reason to switch.

But it’s never “it has essential features that people need”. Because it doesn’t. If it did people would use it.

Actually, I believe it does have such features for people with certain hardware setups. I just don't happen to have such a setup.

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