In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software

I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don’t believe that they’re a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland’s technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don’t want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don’t want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn’t think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

  • @woelkchen
    1•1 year ago

    for the average user X11 is still a better option

    The average user has Intel/AMD iGPUs and uses whatever is default which in fact is Wayland in case of Gnome and Steam Deck Game Mode.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Nope, steam deck is X11, just checked mine.

      Yea, most people use the default, like I use Wayland on my desktop which is almost exclusively used for games so 99.9% of applications launch through xwayland. I’m saying Wayland doesn’t have advantages over X11 for the average user and for anyone with an Nvidia GPU it is an active hindrance.

      • @woelkchen
        1•1 year ago

        Nope, steam deck is X11, just checked mine.

        Then you checked wrong and don’t understand the difference between Game Mode and Desktop Mode.

        for anyone with an Nvidia GPU it is an active hindrance.

        You bought an expensive product with incomplete drivers. The hindrance is NVidia.