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Am I the only one who's not buying into the Wayland hype? I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair, as I see nothing wrong with it.
I've been using popos for a while, but xfce will always have a place in my heart.
If it had tiling support I'd probably use it still. Being so lightweight is a massive boon.
Am I the only one who's not buying into the Wayland hype? I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair, as I see nothing wrong with it.
> I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair Are you also willing to maintain it?
People like to frame things like the waylands are some sort of default and nothing is being lost and no one is being excluded.
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Why does Wayland "feel like the future?" It feels like a regression to me and a lot of other people who have run into serious usability problems. At best, it seems like a huge diversion of time and resources, given that we already had a working GUI. (Maybe that was the intention.) The arguments for it have boiled down to "yuck code older than me" from supposed professionals employed by commercial Linux vendors to sup…
Because X is not getting much development at this point (personally I still use i3, haven’t switched to Sway, the present works fine for me).
Am I the only one who's not buying into the Wayland hype? I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair, as I see nothing wrong with it.
> I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair Are you also willing to maintain it?
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I know, I know! Change is hard and scary. To be honest, while I am glad they're finally tackling this, I'm also expecting to have a pretty annoying couple of weeks whenever they ship this support and I finally decide to make the switch. There will be things to learn and new behaviors to understand and, yes, new bugs and annoyances to learn to work around. But I think if we both put our big boy pants on, keep a positi…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does Wayland "feel like the future?" It feels like a regression to me and a lot of other people who have run into serious usability problems. At best, it seems like a huge diversion of time and resources, given that we already had a working GUI. (Maybe that was the intention.) The arguments for it have boiled down to "yuck code older than me" from supposed professionals employed by commercial Linux vendors to sup…
Because X is not getting much development at this point (personally I still use i3, haven’t switched to Sway, the present works fine for me).