Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That...
by noahtallen on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:48PM
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I’ve never had any real issues with wayland. It supports high DPI, fractional scaling, and high refresh rates very well — couldn’t say the same about X!
All of my struggles with wayland were adoption. It’s a struggle to force every older electron app to use wayland via CLI flags because the authors, even big ones, haven’t bothered.
I guess there are some unsupported things — like screen control. (If you wanted to control another person’s screen over a video call, it’s unsupported in wayland.) But it also actually sandboxes a lot of things which should be (like screen control!)
Adoption would be a problem with a different system as well, unless it was fully compatible with X. Which defeats at least part of the problem wayland solves.
All of my struggles with wayland were adoption. It’s a struggle to force every older electron app to use wayland via CLI flags because the authors, even big ones, haven’t bothered.
I guess there are some unsupported things — like screen control. (If you wanted to control another person’s screen over a video call, it’s unsupported in wayland.) But it also actually sandboxes a lot of things which should be (like screen control!)
Adoption would be a problem with a different system as well, unless it was fully compatible with X. Which defeats at least part of the problem wayland solves.