At this time it looks like I *cannot* switch to Wayland -- several things
about Wayland just don't work (for me).
I know of at least three things where Wayland simply fails:
I use KiCAD and KiCAD just does not work with Wayland:
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/
I use FVWM2 as my window manager. And I believe FVWM2 uses features of X11
that are not available in Wayland. And no I don't like Gnome or KDE (or
really *any* so-called "modern" desktop environment.
Also I use SSH X11 tunneling very extensively. I have a whole LAN full of
little Linux machines (mostly assorted 'Pis). Some of these are lower end
machines that I don't want to run full-fledged desktop environments on and use
RDP or VNC with, expecially just to run a simple X11 program on.
So, is there a likely timeline where X11 (in whatever form that takes)
"vanishes" and Wayland totally replaces it as the graphical server
infratructure under Linux? Are we talking a few years, a decade, or several
decades?
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