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Great question to be asking. I agree users are indifferent, but there are two ways in which this applies: (1) They aren't going to go out of their way to switc
by adrianmonk 7y ago
Great question to be asking. I agree users are indifferent, but there are two ways in which this applies:
(1) They aren't going to go out of their way to switch from X11 to Wayland. Many users don't even know (or care) what those two things are. Or they do but they don't see the required effort as justified.
(2) Users also aren't going to out of their way to change the default that their Linux distribution supplies. Not unless there are issues that are bad enough to warrant expending that effort. If it defaults to X11, they'll use X11. If it defaults to Wayland, they'll use Wayland.
The major risk I see to Wayland adoption is if distros play it wrong and default to Wayland before it's ready for prime time. If that happens, then users will get a bad taste in their mouth, and their indifference will get replaced with a preference against Wayland. And it will be hard to erase that preference because even if you fix all the issues, they will still remember that time when they tried it and it caused them problems.
- vetinari 7y agoDepends also on the type of distribution audience. Fedora has been defaulting to Wayland for several releases now. RHEL 8 also defaults to Wayland. However, these distributions are probably not used by users, who consider their spacebar heating critical to their workflow.