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From a purely practical point of view, for me personally, I have a laptop where no matter what I tried, with X I got insane constant screen tearing. I tried wit
by dkersten 5y ago
From a purely practical point of view, for me personally, I have a laptop where no matter what I tried, with X I got insane constant screen tearing. I tried with and without compositors, different configuration, different drivers. Nothing worked for me. I tried wayland and its been running silky smooth without any tearing whatsoever.
So, from a personal practical perspective, whatever Wayland does has worked for me, while X11's "superior technology" has completely failed me, on that laptop.
- sprash 5y agoOn a technical/conceptual level X11 can potentially be the best of both worlds and Wayland can't. In practice drivers and programs have bugs, sure. But that can not be blamed on X11 as protocol/API.
- zepto 5y agoThat’s like saying you can’t blame C for buffer overrun vulnerabilities because those are just bugs. If the system makes it easy to write buggy programs and there are common problems that take a lot of effort for developers to overcome it is a bad system.