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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I keep hearing arguments about how broke X is or was and none much seem to carry water. Lots of loud hypothetical security
by jrm4 4y ago
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And I keep hearing arguments about how broke X is or was and none much seem to carry water. Lots of loud hypothetical security issues and literally no remotely significant problems that I, a 20+ year Linux user, ever encountered.
Wayland's just a joke to me now.
- dralley 4y agoI, for one, did encounter a lot of problems with Xorg. Primarily videos that were completely unwatchable due to screen tearing in VLC player whereas under a Wayland session everything worked perfectly. And this was years ago before Wayland was even mature.
- jrm4 4y agoThis and scaling are literally the only ones I've ever seen "in the wild," and in my experience hasn't been remotely close to a deal breaker for most.
- commoner 4y agoI find the screen tearing on X11 to be distracting, and it's definitely a deal-breaker for me. That and X11's comparatively poor HiDPI handling (especially for fractional scaling) encouraged me to switch to Wayland years ago. Most new laptop displays are now high enough in resolution to require some type of display scaling (often fractional) to accomodate the average person's eyesight, and I want my software to work smoothly with my hardware.