Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate.

“In this context, “breaking everything” is another perhaps less accurate way of saying “not everything is fully ported yet”. This porting is necessary because Wayland is designed to target a future that doesn’t include 100% drop-in compatibility with everything we did in the past, because it turns out that a lot of those things don’t make sense anymore. For the ones that do, a compatibility layer (XWayland) is already provided, and anything needing deeper system integration generally has a path forward (Portals and Wayland protocols and PipeWire) or is being actively worked on. It’s all happening!”

Nate’s Original Blog Post

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    10 months ago

    Because it fixes all the issues I had with X. Everything runs a bit faster and is smoother plus inputs behave like they should.

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      10 months ago

      sorry, my rhetorical question was obviously intended as why I should bother. I don’t see any value in stopping you doing whatever you think is better for you, in fact it is exactly what annoys me the most :)

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        10 months ago

        Well Xorg is pretty much unmaintained and is on its death bed. Modern hardware and software are slowly favoring Wayland due to it being much simpler by design.

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          10 months ago

          well, everything which I use runs well on xorg, and I’d need to change relevant parts of my daily stack in order to use wayland sooo … :)

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        10 months ago

        why I should bother

        Bother to do what? As you said, when your distro switches you go with it and notice no difference. You don’t have to bother to do anything.

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            The point of open source is kinda that you have the freedom to do as you will.

            The point of packaged distros is so that you don’t have to do too much.

            Do as you will, brother, do as you will.