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Re:XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap by II2II on Thursday September 14, 2023 @08:45AM (#37508217)
One of the nice things about Linux is that users have choice. A lot of people were put off by the transition to Gnome 3 and continue to be (self included). Which is fine since the desktop environment/window manager can be swapped out. It's nice to see Xfce being added to the mix for Wayland since is is clear that Wayland is going to be the future.

As for Xfce changing, that is to be expected since people's needs change over time. It is simply nice when those changes are gradual and not radical.

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Re:XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap by Qwertious on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:17AM (#37509419)
>It's nice to see Xfce being added to the mix for Wayland since is is clear that Wayland is going to be the future.

It's not clear at all - Wayland is in some ways a regression compared to X (try writing your own WM - tinyWM is 50 LOC, whereas the Wayland equivalent TinyWL is over 1000), and doesn't just "improve" X but changes paradigm entirely.

I'd like to see [Arcan](https://www.arcan-fe.com) be the future, it seems more elegant than Wayland.

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