Comment by dismalaf
5 months ago
No one is forcing anyone to use Wayland. There's DEs that use X11 and have no plans to move to Wayland.
Also no one is preventing this app from working, for whatever reasons the devs just haven't got it working.
Open source software is about freedom. Freedom to say fuck backwards compatibility or freedom to use X11 for the next 100 years.
Also the freedom for the X11 devs to say they don't want to maintain it anymore...
Intentional breaking of Xorg to frustrate use isn’t freedom. It’s harm.
Who broke it? It works. It's still there. Plenty of distros use it still...
The maintainers just got sick of maintaining it and moved on...
This is such a "technically true, the worst kind of true" take.
Whatever group or person "got Wayland going" collectively or individually made a clear choice to abandon a lot of load-bearing standards, and its disengenuous to not recognize that; and I think why people (like me) still complain is to note that this was at least arguably a mistake.
Wayland's rollout was long and terrible, and more cooperation (as opposed to what actually happened, which was likely "move fast and break things because advancement and shiny things since we are now much more corporate" might have been better.
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