Comment by graemep
7 hours ago
I used XFCE for a long time and I very much agree. it just works, and is lightweight. I use KDE these days but XFCE would be my second choice.
> The X11 diehards will go the way of the SysV-init diehard
I hope you are not conflating anti-systemD people with SysV init diehards? As far as I can see very few people want to keep Sysv init, but there are lots who think SystemD init is the wrong replacement, and those primarily because its a lot more than an init system.
In many ways the objects are opposite. People hate system D for being more than init, people hate Wayland for doing less than X.
Edit: corrected "Wayland" to "XFCE" in first sentence!
It is refreshing to see somebody else notice that the complaints about systemd and Wayland are philosophically incompatible.
Systemd is creating the same kind of monolith monoculture that Xorg represented. Wayland is far more modular.
Regardless of your engineering preferences, rejecting change is the main reason to object to both.
I do not have a strong opinion about Xorg vs Wayland. My only real concern is that it might make it harder for the BSDs but that seems to be being dealt with. I do like being able to use X over the nextwork but that is a problem that can be solved.
I do dislike System D for two reasons. One is exactly because it s a monolith and, in effect, an extension of the OS. The other is the attitude of the developers which becomes very evident if you browser the issues.