On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Tim via users writes: > > > Sam Varshavchik: > > > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively > > > Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in > > > order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't > > > happen anytime soon, but it will happen. > > > > I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of > > features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they > > reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they > > don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it? > > I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems. Read https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-pages-227-238.pdf This paper describes the problems Wayland is trying to solve. > The > stated problems with X, that were the purported drivers for Wayland -- I > just can't find those problems, myself. > Other people can. Just because X works for you doesn't mean Wayland doesn't make linux suitable for use cases where X fails. > > But it's painfully obvious that every effort is being made to ditch X in > favor of the Next Greatest Thing. It's a path well trodden by Gnome 3 and > systemd. I'm just a realist here, and I see the handwriting on the wall. > Real money is being spent to develop Wayland because the need for better linux graphics justifies the effort. > > The only thing that will keep X in business is a popular widget set or a > desktop that does not get ported to Wayland. I'm keeping my fingers > crossed > that xfce will be enough to keep X around. Maybe not in Fedora, but in > other > distributions. > Most likely scenario is a new lightweight DE using Wayland, maybe stealing code from xfce or maybe completely written from scratch. -- George N. White III
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