Yes, I made it using a laptop’s trackpad, how could you tell?
[Image description: Panel 1: Young man confidently walking, his vest bears the Wayland logo. Behind him is a grunt with the Gnome logo on his face holding a katana. The young man says: “It’s high time you retire, old man!” Panel 2: An old man with a long beard and the Xorg logo on his chest is sitting on a throne and petting a rat, the XFCE mascot. He says: “It’s still a hundred years too early for you to defeat me!” ]
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This is amazing
Today, X is like the horse and buggy proponents, claiming the car isn’t feasible cause you can’t get gasoline in every town.
I mean, what’s that one complaint about electric cars?
They come infestated with proprietary software making them more of a tech product than a mode of transportation which leads to fear on their repairability as well as whether or not you’ll own the damn thing after you spend a quarter million years paying it off
No, that is very much NOT unique to electric cars.
I think my 2004 lincoln towncar have a long time left together
That you get like no mileage after hours of changing?
Tbh horses need quite a bit of rest too
It’s the same argument. Getting a reasonable amount of charging is possible in 15 minutes. But not everyone has immediate access to fast charging stations. If everyone could always make a deliberate decision whether to go easy on the battery and save money or having to be places, EVs may look much more appealing to a lot of people.
Hybrids are way better than full EVs imo.
Wayland gets so many more of the basics so much better than X11 it’s not even funny anymore. X11 is stuttery, unsecure, unmaintaned, can’t really be updated for new features that are pretty important in 2024 (VRR, HDR). For now with my usage, the only big disadvantage I saw from Wayland is that you can’t restart it like X11 when something goes wrong, but that’s the thing, I haven’t had to restart it like I had to often with X11. Even on Nvidia Wayland is better now, except maybe for gaming but that’s Nvidia for you.
You absolutely can restart Wayland. The command to do so is just specific to whichever DE or WM you’re using as they have their own Wayland Compositor implementation.
DEs should implement good commands for that
- start session from tty (example
startplasma-wayland) - logout (example
qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 3 3) - restart wayland server (example
kwin_wayland --replace)
Some of those are completely undiscoverable
Yeah, I agree. I just ended up aliasing them.
- start session from tty (example
X11 is stuttery
Not for me
unsecure
Source?
unmaintaned
Received a number of commits just last week: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg
can’t really be updated for new features that are pretty important in 2024 (VRR, HDR).
VRR is supported, at least on AMD: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate
For HDR you have a point, afaik.
Wayland gets so many more of the basics so much better than X11 it’s not even funny anymore.
And yet X11 works rock solid for me, while Wayland still crashes whenever I so much as look at it wrong. The amount of time and work I’ve lost because of Wayland crapping out on me isn’t even funny anymore. On AMD by the way, so no blaming Nvidia’s crappy Linux support.
Wayland will probably be the better product one day, but this day is not that day, at least not for every use-case. Great that it works fantastically for you, I genuinely advise you to keep using it, but keep in mind that ‘mileage may vary’ from person to person. Personally for now I’ll stick to X11, as I need to get work done and unfortunately don’t have time to muck around with Wayland’s antics.
X11 is insecure. Any program can read any keystroke, any windows contents, can input anything anywhere etc.
The concept of separate apps basically doesnt exist.
Not for me
Source?
The Xorg devs have literally stated as much themselves.
Received a number of commits just last week: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg
The vast majority of those commits are literally because of Xwayland.
VRR is supported, at least on AMD: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate
Barely, it has numerous issues. The Wayland VRR implementations address much of those issues.
For HDR you have a point, afaik.
HDR literally can’t be added to Xorg without rewriting the entire stack. They’ve been trying to get HDR working for something like around 10yrs before they gave up completely.
Wayland on the other hand has been designed from the ground up to be completely expandable, directly addressing the largest problem with Xorg, maintainability.…at least not for every use-case… …‘mileage may vary’ from person to person…
Yes, that’s true. What would reduce edge cases however, is if you reported those bugs.
Wayland will probably be the better product one day…
That day is coming sooner then later.
Personally for now I’ll stick to X11…
That’s fine, however you should switch as soon as it becomes viable to do so.
Except X.org should be frail and have tubes running out of every orifice on their body. They are on life support and receiving updates only related to Xwayland.
It’s the systemd drama all over again
No.
System D was/Is a philosophical debate.
Wayland vs X is a mortal attempting to summit Mt. Everest naked. Everyone is cheering Wayland on, no one believes it’ll succeed.
Even the X people are like “Honestly it’d be a relief if you pulled this off, we’re so tired, please end us”
No one thinks it’ll succeed? Obviously you and I exist in very different parts of the linux sphere, cause I’m pretty sure X11 is all but dead as a project and its kinda just a question of how long it takes for Wayland to be feature complete enough to reach a critical mass of adoption. And its kinda feeling like we’re currently on the cusp of being there with the major DEs moving towards discontinuing X11 support 😅
This software has been in development for a long time and still doesn’t work for my niche usecase and this therefore UNUSABLE and DOOMED TO FAIL
- Actual Linux users, completely oblivious to the irony of that sentence
That’s a weird take. You have a software that you use and suits your needs. It’s showing its age, but still tricks along. Then there’s this other software that’s gaining spotlight, but it does not suit all your needs. You point out the regression. Some rando makes fun of your valid point.
I agree with what you’re saying, but you’re shifting the goalpost.
Everyone is cheering Wayland on, no one believes it’ll succeed
That parent comment (and other comments like it in these threads) are what I take issue with. You can make the exact same argument why people should stick with Windows and not bother with Linux.
But… You didn’t take issue with that. You ridicularized a completely different statement, one that was valid even. You pulled a reverse strawman on yourself. If you’d made a counterpoint to original post, I’d have agreed with you.
X is 36 years old. Wayland is 15. Wayland was not the first attempt at unseating that throne and for the sake of all our sanity, I hope it’s the last. I don’t want Wayland to win because it’s better, I want Wayland to win because I’m tired of trying to use it and having to go back to X because it broke something.
Everyone is cheering Wayland on, no one believes it’ll succeed.
Uhhmm. I think by now most see it inevitable with distros and DEs switching on increasing pace
What the fuck is “System D”?
Let me google that for you
google?
Let me quack that for you then
Is that the word for using Duckduckgo? I figured it’d be “duckduckgoing”, like “I just duckduckwent systemd”. Anyway, I use searx, so I’d obviously say “I searxed”.
Quacking is just way better haha
i like x because it runs well on my legacy hardware
but i’m also rooting for progress, so i’m also glad xfce is adding wayland support
Is that the C++ mascot rat? As famously illustrated by rms?
Chad X11
Nice reference as Xfce still not implemented Wayland support as far as I know.
Yeah duh. It’s called X fce??!?
They are working on it, while keeping the xorg session alive
