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> Explicitly excludes the following software: wayland I find it curious that a distro espousing simplicity would choose XOrg over Wayland (which was created to
by zamalek 6y ago
> Explicitly excludes the following software: wayland
I find it curious that a distro espousing simplicity would choose XOrg over Wayland (which was created to resolve problems arising from unnecessary complexity in XOrg). It looks like this is 80% simplicity and 20% sentimentality. I don't use wayland myself, but simplicity is certainly not a factor in that decision.
- zests 6y agoWayland strikes me as the "shiny new thing" that is not ready for widescale use. If I was designing a distro and could only choose one I would choose X unless it was specifically a distro for shiny things that break.
- zamalek 6y agoI think that's a completely fair reason to avoid wayland, there are many of them. Complexity just doesn't seem like one of them.
- upofadown 6y agoIs the total system complexity less with Wayland? It seems to push a lot of functionality out to the edges. X isn't really all that complicated, just crufty...
- zamalek 6y agoI guess it may depend on your definition of simplicity. Mine really is "can do less" and there's this whole networking component to X (which I use).