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I am not an X/wayland dev, but: I don’t think it’s supposed to be an upgrade from the users perspective, just a new display driver. Maybe a few new native thin

I am not an X/wayland dev, but: I don’t think it’s supposed to be an upgrade from the users perspective, just a new display driver. Maybe a few new native things like rotatable windows etc which if exist in X11 are probably emulated. X11 by modern standards is a shitshow of dirty hacks, I spent the weekend researching ‘how can I not have notifications pop over my lock screen using openbox and any composite manager’ and it ended up in the top hard basket. Also repeat this story for screen tearing, DPI, acceleration, weird bugs, etc etc. Wayland is maturing which is nice, but you really won’t notice many changes, but youll be much cleaner / less buggy in the long run.

ColanR 7y ago
The way I see it, Wayland itself is better in some ways but not great. For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders - hence, case-by-case handling of exceptions to the security model. Read: dirty hacks built in from the start. I think clipboard handling also falls under this category. Edit: to me, it seems like wayland isn't fundamentally better. It's just a "new and improved" version of the same system architecture paradigm X is built with. I'd be more interested in something that follows the 'everything is a file' paradigm that made Unix so great to begin with.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 7y ago
  > For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders This isn't true.