• @BananaTrifleViolin
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      58 months ago

      Tbf Wayland released 15 years ago but its an ecosystem rather than one tool. Wayland has evolved and other parts of the system have been built and refined. Plus XWayland compatibiliry layer is an essential component as so little software has been rewritten to work with wayland natively.

      We’re only really now at the point where most users can use wayland by default without errors. But I’m still experiencing software and tools that force me to go back to X11. It makes sense for Fedora to drop X11 as default if it’s a more “cutting edge” distro but I don’t think Debian for example will be doing so for years to come.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        I agree with all that your said, but my point is that software age has little to do with when something should be made default. It’s about being the right choice, like you said.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        Plus XWayland compatibiliry layer is an essential component as so little software has been rewritten to work with wayland natively.

        Basically all Qt4/5/6 software and all GTK 3/4 software works on Wayland natively, outside of a few edge cases… what else is there aside from games?

      • lemmyvore
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        18 months ago

        It also means years for Fedora. They have a development cycle too. Things that they announce today might be considered for the next cycle and might actually make it in Fedora two cycles from current.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        If we keep it up, in 10 years a new project to replace Wayland will be started, and in another 20 it’ll be replaced. Not bad, but not great. 3.6 Roentgen.