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>What even gives you the credentials to make a claim like that? This is a fallacy.

• scrollaway 5y ago
  wtf? it's absolutely not, when making wild claims about the inner workings of a project in a field where very few people are competent. If I start making wild claims about cardiology, you'd be correct to ask me for some credentials.
  • headsoup 5y ago
    What credentials do I need to state and opinion on how it seems to have evolved? I'm not stating a scientific truth. And yes, it is the fallacy of credentialism to attempt to use that as a measure of authority to make a statement. I could be a kernel developer of 20 years experience and have been terrible for all of them.
    • seba_dos1 5y ago
      That's right - you're not stating a scientific truth, you're just stating falsehoods. It's pretty much enough to look at how any non-trivial X11 client looks like these days to understand the reason for Wayland's existence. Wayland, while not perfect, offers an incredibly clean and extendable design when compared to X11. Whether the whole ecosystem is already in place to move regular users over is another matter (I'm developing a Wayland compositor at work and even I am still using X11 on my workstation), although with this kind of project I guess you just need to face the chicken-and-egg problem at some point to actually move things forward.
      • headsoup 5y ago
        You just explained exactly what I assumed is going on. Great, Wayland has a bright extensible future, but right now it doesn't solve anything so special that common users (or distro owners) desire moving over, hence the low usage of Wayland. Not a problem with Wayland, it's just as you say, not there yet.