Re:Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative
by sprash on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:21AM
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> However the competition is X which is effortlessly surpassed at a design level.
I strongly disagree. Wayland makes the wrong abstractions and does not offer vital functionality usually needed on a Desktop system. As a result every Toolkit/Compositor has to implement that additional functionality itself and most of the time it is incompatible to the competitor for no apparent reason. X might be old and has accumulated a lot of cruft over time (which is excusable for software that is almost 40 years in use) but is genuinely superior at the design level.
As an exercise I recommend to write a native universal applicable Wayland application that takes screenshots.
Wayland isn't perfect. However the competition is X which is effortlessly surpassed at a design level. Building up the scar tissue will come in time and the practical issues will be solved by hook or crook.
It is easy to have sympathy for the people who have working X setups and are inconvenienced by change. However, there is a desperate drought of people with the know-how and willingness to work with X and the linux graphics stack has well and truly moved on.