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In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software

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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[–] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I don't see the problem, I also don't see how this is a novel situation.

The technical merits of system level protocols only really affect the user insofar as they make it easier for userspace application writers to make their software. This is why we have the distinction, so that users never have to change the underlying software, and when they choose to it's because everything just works.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] BlueDragon28@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The only reason I use Wayland is because I have two monitor with different refresh rate. In X, the monitor with the highest refresh is capped to the lowest one and I never figured out how to fix it. In Wayland it just work. Hoverwise I will still be on X.

[–] AzazariDanger@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There a synergy/barrier replacement working on Wayland yet?

No?

Then I guess Wayland isn't ready yet.

[–] jerb@lemmy.croc.pw 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Client machine is a Windows box, and I can't change that, unfortunately.

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[–] kshade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The big reason why I'm still on Xorg and will be for a while is XFCE. I've tried everything from KDE Neon to Sway but they are either missing features I want or were too buggy to bother. Should try Budgie again when 11 comes out though, that seems to be close to XFCE in terms of scope and is supposed to work well with Wayland by then.

[–] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I won't switch to Wayland until the compositor is separated so that when GNOME Shell crashes (as it does a few times a month), I can restart it without losing all my running apps.

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