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> * I've yet to see any actual, honest to god benefits for the end user. Literally everything I've seen is the fact that it makes development easier for the way
by guerrilla 4y ago
> * I've yet to see any actual, honest to god benefits for the end user. Literally everything I've seen is the fact that it makes development easier for the wayland devs and harder for literally everyone else.
You can see some small benefits in GNOME like movies still playing while window switching, nice shadows, no more tearing, etc. but honestly who cares but aesthetes. None of this was in popular demand. The security is nice but when was that ever exploited in the wild? Mostly I see downsides, like now there's multiple ways (or no way in some compositors) to dim screens...
I'm sure eventually we'll get all our features back but for now it's mostly a bunch of small irritations that add up.
- amelius 4y ago> but honestly who cares but aesthetes Someone building the next Apple might care.
- guerrilla 4y agoSo, aesthetes making up virtually zero percent of Linux desktop users while handicapping the rest for years.
- adrian_b 4y agoUnder X11, I do not remember to have ever seen any disturbance in movie playing during window switching, but I have also never used GNOME. If Wayland improves movie playing under GNOME, then it solves a GNOME bug, not an X11 bug.
- guerrilla 4y agoI mean in thumbnails and while switching workspaces and all that... There's never any frozen frames, skips or anything. Yes, eventually X got compositing, but not for most of its life and not in mainstream WMs.
- pantalaimon 4y agoCompiz has been around for 16 years now
- guerrilla 4y agoYeah, I did mention that in my comment and also that it's not Metacity/Mutter, KWin or popular. On the other hand, I've never seen Compiz perform this well.
- adrian_b 4y agoI am using XFCE, which has included a compositor for many years. I think that it counts as a mainstream WM.