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This is Debian. They don't just change the display system in a point release.

• pampa 10y ago
  Since a package has to be at least 3 years out of date to be included in debian stable, and wayland is only 4 years old, it will take another 10 years. And it is probably a good thing, i tried switching to wayland but it didnt make much sense. The only tiling compositor that worked for me was sway, but every other app i tried to use worked thru xwayland. no native firefox, no redshift. it did fix tearing in video playback though. Maybe if i used gnome it would have made more sense.
  • chris_wot 10y ago
    Most desktop users are better off with unstable.
    • Franciscouzo 10y ago
      I'd say testing is a better choice for desktop users, and pinning some unstable packages only if necessary.
      • chris_wot 10y ago
        Fair comment!
      • osivertsson 10y ago
        Please be aware that security fixes for Debian testing may lag behind [1]. [1] https://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing https://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing
    • keithpeter 10y ago
      Some desktop users prefer stable despite its older package set. I use backports on stable for a few things. HNers will probably prefer Sid as the packages will be newer. debootstrap springs to mind for newer programming language versions &c (I have never used a debootstrap install for that purpose however).