Wayland vs X11
The cluster centers on debates about whether Wayland will replace X11/Xorg, covering criticisms of Wayland's maturity, missing features, and stability issues versus X11's reliability and ongoing deprecation.
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And that's why wayland will never replace X
No. I'm guessing the main issue is that Wayland is not a replacement for X.
Well, Wayland is "new.". Why not use X if it doesn't yet fit your needs?
Wayland looks like the impaired child of X. They promise some security and they are reinventing the wheel.
ok, why? any grand plan? what's the background and why would anyone bet on X.org when wayland has been ok for a decade now?
Wayland is what happened when the Xorg maintainers got sick and tired of maintainting Xorg. They're not going back. Xorg is being led behind the barn to be shot. Wayland is the future. Deal with it.
As I like to say, suck it up, use Wayland, file bug reports.Criticizing Wayland is great if you do it with the intent of improving Wayland.Encouraging people to fuck off back to X is counterproductive because X is a DEAD END. It's like Republican politics: all it does is obstruct useful progress, by design. The maintainers of Xorg have decided that Wayland is the way to go, as have the maintainers of the major toolkits, DEs, and distros. Spreading FUD about Wayland in an attempt to en
aka Wayland will never end up replacing X
Why is it not? I get the impression Wayland has been built by former X devs
Who still uses X11 when Wayland works great?