Comment by bluGill

8 months ago

X just worked for a large subset of users. However Wayland just works for a large subset as well. In either case if you are in the subset where it doesn't work then you will complain. Wayland has a design such that if things don't work for you today we have a hope that we can make it work for you in the future. Many of the issues where X didn't work for some people could not be fixed, and some of those were issues that are becoming more important.

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josephcsible  8 months ago

> Wayland has a design such that if things don't work for you today we have a hope that we can make it work for you in the future.

The reason we hate Wayland so much is that X is being killed off now, with things only ever maybe working again in the future. Wayland would be way better if the people behind it added support for all of the missing features and use cases first, and only then killed off X.

  • bluGill  8 months ago

    You are welcome to naintain x if you want. However there is a reason nobody wants to. Wayland is not perfect but it is a lot easier to maintain.