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> Like, according to the linked article, the standard is out there since 2008 - so the adoption period is already 14 years! 2008 is when the project started.
by LukeShu 4y ago
> Like, according to the linked article, the standard is out there since 2008 - so the adoption period is already 14 years!
2008 is when the project started. In 2012 it was sorta-usable as a new weird experimental thing, but it was absolutely not even trying for adoption yet.
The first distro to make Wayland the default was Fedora 25 in 2016.
So the adoption period is 6 years, not 14.
- mrighele 4y ago> 2008 is when the project started. In 2012 it was sorta-usable as a new weird experimental thing Four years to get out an experimental sorta usable thing seems a huge amount of time to me. Even more so if you think that many basic things (drag and drop, screenshots, ...) came years later.
- LukeShu 4y agoWhat? 4 years to get from "I think I'm going to rethink the entire GNU/Linux graphics stack" to "usable" is amazing, especially if you consider the GPU-drivers work that was involved. And to be clear: A big part of only being "sorta" usable isn't anything to do with itself, it's that so little other software had been ported to it.
- kaba0 4y agoThat’s just inherent in bazaar-style of development. There is no cathedral to demand that from now on we go with this.