Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-...
by DCKing on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:08PM
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> In practice if all/most implementations are buggy, I think it's fair to lump them all together and say that Wayland.
Fair enough. I think it's a bit unfair to label the collective failure of the Linux community/ecosystem to actually make change happen as "Wayland has problems". But it's true that in 2020 you will still lose use cases when using anything Wayland based.
Wayland will never replace the X11 based workflows you describe though, because it isn't X11. Although X11 has a lot of fundamental problems, flexibility isn't one. And some flexibility you will have to give up moving to any Wayland based desktop.
In practice if all/most implementations are buggy, I think it's fair to lump them all together and say that Wayland (as used by the software actually running on my machine) has problems. You know the meme about how whenever someone tries Desktop Linux and has trouble, someone pops up and says "just use this other distro, with this particular set of software and this exact configuration, and it'll just work!"? Wayland feels like that. Sure, if I want to go all in on GNOME (on Fedora), it'll probably work. Sure, if I use Sway with the right set of compatible programs it'll work. But... I could also just stay on X where all my programs work now with no tinkering, where I can drop in any screenshot program, any clipboard manager, any screen sharing program, any keyboard configuration/emulation tool (I'm really fond of xdotool), and it will work.