On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:44:59PM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote: > > > Tim via users writes: > > > > > Sam Varshavchik: > > > > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively > > > > Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in > > > > order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't > > > > happen anytime soon, but it will happen. > > > > > > I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of > > > features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they > > > reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they > > > don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it? > > > > I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems. > > > Read > https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-pages-227-238.pdf > > This paper describes the problems Wayland is trying to solve.
I think https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland_situation&num=1 is a more accessable listing of the reasons wayland exists. Granted it's from almost 9 years ago now, but it does give some interesting reasoning IMHO. kevin
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