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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japanoise Nov 21, 2019 View on HN

And that's why wayland will never replace X

nsajko Jun 6, 2020 View on HN

No. I'm guessing the main issue is that Wayland is not a replacement for X.

abrouwers Sep 24, 2022 View on HN

Well, Wayland is "new.". Why not use X if it doesn't yet fit your needs?

hulitu Dec 25, 2021 View on HN

Wayland looks like the impaired child of X. They promise some security and they are reinventing the wheel.

alex_duf Jun 6, 2025 View on HN

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?

bitwize Apr 27, 2024 View on HN

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.

bitwize Oct 17, 2023 View on HN

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

NooneAtAll3 Sep 20, 2025 View on HN

aka Wayland will never end up replacing X

paulryanrogers Dec 25, 2025 View on HN

Why is it not? I get the impression Wayland has been built by former X devs

techntoke Jan 14, 2020 View on HN

Who still uses X11 when Wayland works great?