I feel like people that unironically tout Linux phones as stable enough are the same people that think we can ditch Xorg, not true even though I obviously would like it to be.
I feel like I might’ve exaggerated the chasm between ditching Xorg and adopting Linux phones, Waylands only problems are really VR (just seems to be dead end outside of SteamVR) and Nvidia feature parity though that’s less to do with Wayland and more to do with Nvidia dragging their feet on Linux, theres also the odd edge case like unrecognised inputs.
Oh, come on. Wayland is shipped by default by a lot of distros now because it’s perfectly stable and usable in the vast majority of use cases and hardware. For every story about wayland falling down, I can come up with a dozen “stupid shit X11 does now because it’s unmaintained and dev X tries to do something new with his app” stories. I do silly things like run 6 monitors on 2 GPUs on a Core 2Duo, and it runs like a top. If there’s a problem, it’s always something dumb i’ve done like knocked a cable than it is that Wayland has shit the bed. And it’s been working like that for 2 years.
I ran a Pinephone for a year as a DD back in the early days, it was a pain in the ass but it was possible if you were stubborn enough. But it was no Android. But then again, it wasn’t Android.
I feel like people that unironically tout Linux phones as stable enough are the same people that think we can ditch Xorg, not true even though I obviously would like it to be.
I totally see what you mean with the GNU-like Linux phones. But what issue could you have with Wayland in the year 2024?
PinePhone and Librem 5 actually run GNU/Linux. Same software that you can run on desktop. Only Ubuntu Touch uses Android kernel I think.
I feel like I might’ve exaggerated the chasm between ditching Xorg and adopting Linux phones, Waylands only problems are really VR (just seems to be dead end outside of SteamVR) and Nvidia feature parity though that’s less to do with Wayland and more to do with Nvidia dragging their feet on Linux, theres also the odd edge case like unrecognised inputs.
Oh, come on. Wayland is shipped by default by a lot of distros now because it’s perfectly stable and usable in the vast majority of use cases and hardware. For every story about wayland falling down, I can come up with a dozen “stupid shit X11 does now because it’s unmaintained and dev X tries to do something new with his app” stories. I do silly things like run 6 monitors on 2 GPUs on a Core 2Duo, and it runs like a top. If there’s a problem, it’s always something dumb i’ve done like knocked a cable than it is that Wayland has shit the bed. And it’s been working like that for 2 years.
I ran a Pinephone for a year as a DD back in the early days, it was a pain in the ass but it was possible if you were stubborn enough. But it was no Android. But then again, it wasn’t Android.
Spoke on it at the top reply
I daily drive mine and it’s not good, but I prefer that than running spyware.
it is very easy to stop using xorg, lol