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For giggles, I put Fedora on a Macbook Pro. Wayland + Gnome works surprisingly well, and I can see the appeal for some users. But I'm right there with you on XM
by peatmoss 9y ago
For giggles, I put Fedora on a Macbook Pro. Wayland + Gnome works surprisingly well, and I can see the appeal for some users. But I'm right there with you on XMonad.
I'm not wed to XMonad or any of the extensions, really (for example mostly vanilla dwm, which XMonad was based on, works fine). But I am wed to the keyboard shortcuts and basic functionality of XMonad + dmenu. I'd probably be very happy if there were an XMonad style tiling option in Wayland Gnome.
But, I can't help but feel a little weird about some of the free *nixen moving away from X11. I don't see Wayland running on OpenBSD any time soon, for example. I worry that this will be yet another thing that leaves the old world of diverse, but standards-adhering Unixes behind. I'm genuinely not even sure whether that's a bad thing, though my gut reaction is that a Linux monoculture isn't what I'd want.