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Are you saying that Wayland doesn’t not only run on Nvidia, it’s also buggy as hell?

• alxlaz 7y ago
  Yeah, I also should have said that the response of the other part of the community isn't exactly sympathetic (or useful), either. Truth is, a lot of the reason why X11 works so well today is that a bunch of us put up with a lot of X11 crap back in the day. E.g. things like xdotool haven't existed forever, either, and it took a lot of itches (and imperfect way of scratching them) before someone wrote that. X11 wasn't exactly hassle-free for a very long time. And you get to fiddle with config files with Wayland, too, but none of these files are as long as a small section in XF86Config. That's how free software matures -- in the open. If you want to contribute towards hiring a team of testers, you're welcome, because no one does that as a hobby. And all this is in a context were fewer and fewer developers are interested in desktop development, and fewer and fewer companies are interested in investing in desktop development.
  • zzzcpan 7y ago
    > And all this is in a context were fewer and fewer developers are interested in desktop development, and fewer and fewer companies are interested in investing in desktop development. Which could make X11 the last linux/unix desktop thing. Anything new would have to come with the whole desktop paradigm shift.
    • kragen 7y ago
      SurfaceFlinger.