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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And I'm sure all the other people using 6 monitors on 2 GPUs at the same time will appreciate it.

Seriously, how common is such a scenario that you'd even mention it in this context?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two monitors with different refresh rates is very common. Think laptop connected to a bigger monitor.

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

I have 2 75hz and a 240hz. It's been alright for me on kde and x11. Although, I do want to give this Wayland thing a shot after hearing it being brought up so many times

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3 monitors is probably a lot more common than you think.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Since it's probably reasonably rare it's a good demonstration of the stability of Wayland. It makes sense to mention it imo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ultra wide for cheap is one of uses