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This ship has sailed for better or worse. The people who take these decisions don't hang out in forums to listen to every complaint and gripe. They work for the
by Santosh83 6y ago
This ship has sailed for better or worse. The people who take these decisions don't hang out in forums to listen to every complaint and gripe. They work for the main corporations and foundations steering Linux development and they have decided that Wayland is the future, even if the transition is going to be ugly. Linux is no longer the "community" OS that it once was. In a way it has gone more mainstream than even MacOS or Windows, and that means it will cater to the larger market forces than the "community's" wants.
- diegocg 6y agoWayland is not corporate policy. It was developed as a side project by some guy from Red Hat, people liked it. Corporations would have likely pressured to keep using X11 to avoid breaking compatibility with applications.
- emersion 6y agoThe people who take decisions can take decisions because they contributed a lot to the project. If you want to take decisions too, there's no need to be part of a big company, all you need is getting involved. The ecosystem is still powered by the community. I see a lot of patches coming from hobbyists in many related projects.
- ATsch 6y agoThis makes no sense. The community of people working on Xorg aren't gone, they're just working on wayland now. Wayland was designed by long time Xorg maintainers. This "hostile takeover" narrative is complete FUD.