After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what t…
For most new users, sure, as they’ll tend to use the most well-known distros. Wayland adoption is still not 100% and it very much depends on distro and DE.
And Wayland works for most users. In fact, for these users, it works better than Xorg.
If they never tried X they can’t compare it, can they?
So nobody is going to switch to Xorg.
Only those that need features Wayland doesn’t provide yet. Not most people, no.
You completely missed the point being made.
Did i? Wayland is being touted as the next big thing when in fact it’s not even ready yet. And this is after what? 15 years?
Most users don’t care either way so long as it works.
Most users saw no reason to want to change.
Eventually it’ll get there, let’s hope so, but for now it reeks of systemd mentality.
Let’s also hope when it’s finally feature-matched to X that it won’t be a mess like X is.
For most new users, sure, as they’ll tend to use the most well-known distros. Wayland adoption is still not 100% and it very much depends on distro and DE.
If they never tried X they can’t compare it, can they?
Only those that need features Wayland doesn’t provide yet. Not most people, no.
Did i? Wayland is being touted as the next big thing when in fact it’s not even ready yet. And this is after what? 15 years?
Most users don’t care either way so long as it works.
Most users saw no reason to want to change.
Eventually it’ll get there, let’s hope so, but for now it reeks of systemd mentality.
Let’s also hope when it’s finally feature-matched to X that it won’t be a mess like X is.