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Re:Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing by szanni on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:17AM (#30751577)
> Propaganda. Wayland has usability issues they've yet to fix after 10 years.

This. Sadly. I have tried switching numerous times.

The problem for me is libinput which seems to suffer from the "we know better" syndrome that seems to have become more prevalent in recent years on Linux. The author even openly states so in the FAQ [0]. Certain features will NEVER be implemented, because you are wrong to want them. Looks like Apple to me. On X I luckily still have synaptics which provides the knobs I need.

Aside from that Wayland still randomly crashes.

[0] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/faqs.htm...

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Re:Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing by franga2000 on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:57AM (#30754860)
Yeah the libinput team's insistence on "your use case is invalid" and the wayland team's classic "this is a job for the compositor" are making the next generation of linux desktops more locked down than iOS for regular users.

Pushing so much responsibility onto compositors means we'll never get even close to the variety of DEs that we had before. Even the two biggest DEs don't have feature parity with X11 despite owning their compositors.

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