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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] -18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've not even heard of what the technical merits are. It seems to just break shit like systemd.

Eventually I'll be dragged across by the distro, but until then I do not care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Same. I'm sure its great, but I'm not motivated to spend my time and energy on it. I remember when PulseAudio first came out, it had growing pains too. I jumped on board early because it solved problems I needed to solve. I was a younger nerd back then, and I don't have the patience for the cutting edge anymore.

I hear it does indeed work with Nvidia now, so I guess I'll give it another shot next time I distro-hop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just check out a compatible desktop environment/window manager. you don't need to do a full distro change.

if the base is the same (ie. debian, arch, etc) there is no point in changing distros anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or, maybe, not go out of my way to fit my way of working to someone else's notice of how I should be doing things? If A works and B doesn't, unless I put in a lot of effort... Why exactly would I?

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