The Wayland transition will, itself, probably leave people with my preferences (tiling WM, a stack of other small customizations that depend on X) high and dry for a while, but I guess one can hope that it'll be a solid foundation for future development.
Re:KDE Slimbook
by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:17PM
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I'm just not transitioning until my preferred WM (stumpwm or another Common Lisp tiling WM) transitions. I'm a bit skeptical that Wayland provides any significant benefits for my use cases.
> Unless, of course, the average Linux developer remains a graybeard with a Thinkpad.
The latest generation Thinkpads have high res screens :)
> many of the distros are spending resources to switch to Wayland
High DPI support is vastly improved in Wayland, so that's a good thing!
The other major hump to get over at the moment is that many of the distros are spending resources to switch to Wayland, and I imagine we'll need to let that transition stabilize first before we get the bulk of resources diverted to HiDPI support.