Also, it is questionable at best to state that Wayland compositors doesn’t work. Gnome is quite stable and with pipewire everything just works. Sway is similarly a stable software.
Random example: in Sway, Chrome and all Electron apps have blurry text on displays with scaling other than 1.0. Every time I try “wayland” (or whatever term you would prefer I use), there is some show stopping bug like this.
I feel like the conversations here usually go like this, with people just talking past each other:
A: “X11 is going away, time to switch to Wayland!”
B: “Okay, but last time I tried it, it didn’t work for me because <list of reasons>”.
A: “No no no, you don’t understand, that’s not Wayland’s fault, it’s a compositor issue.”
B: “Well, whatever the issue is, I’d like to keep using X.”
A: “But X is going away! It’s deprecated!”
That’s literally because of X. Both of them run by default in XWayland, but chrome do have wayland support already (but has to be enabled), and electron also have since being built on chrome, but most versions out there are not built with that version I believe.
Also, noone says you SHOULD change. Feel free to use whatever you want. But saying wayland suck, when you didn’t even use goddamn wayland for evaluating it just “sucks”...
I don’t care — that was the whole point of my comment.
> Also, noone says you SHOULD change
Yes they do! People are saying all the time that X is deprecated and going away, and we need to switch to Wayland.
If other people want to use Wayland, it of course doesn’t bother me; I just hope it never becomes the standard and pushes out X, which works fine for me.
You can continue to run on eg. Linux 3.* if you so wish. And X is a stable software, it will continue to work reliably in the foreseeable future, even without active maintenance.
Did you read the comment I was responding too? It had already conflated the two. However, in the spirit of not being petty, I ignored the conflation and decided to address the real issue, that implementations of Wayland are not stable after 12 years, while X was actually stable after about 8.