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KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
(www.phoronix.com)
Nate Graham acknowledges current gaps in Wayland support but on the matter of "Wayland breaks everything" isn't really the right perspective
That's rather disingenuous. It's meant to be a replacement for X11. So it does break things.
As railways were a replacement for canals.
It was not the railways that broke the barge. But the companies expecting to gain the advantages without adapting there transportation.
Replace not upgrade.
PS i still use canals. Bur do not blame the raIlway for not fitting my boat.
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Trying to gaslight others? nice
No, they're discussing the way forward and what they think makes sense. In fact, they're even clearly stating that there will be pain, because Wayland intentionally does less than X11. And they're encouraging people with unsolved pain points to speak up.
Really looking forward to the day nvidia drivers properly support wayland. Getting tons of bugs, stutters, and general usability issues with plasma wayland on my 3060. X11 just works on the other hand, even with multiple monitors running at different refresh rates (something a friend of mine said X11 doesn't work well with). But I want all the nice benefits wayland offers.
~~Wayland doesn't support Nvidia GPUs yet~~
I'm sorry, my bad, I was unaware.
Nvidia GPUs don't support Wayland yet. As Linux Torvalds would say, "NVidia, Fuck You"
Fuck You NVIDIA
Uh reading the article, pretty sure the author would phrase it as "Nvidia GPUs don't support Wayland yet" and that author would be absolutely right.
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Eh, I always discredit people when they say X is bad.
It's been around for over 20 years. That kind of longevity should be praised.
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