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Not sure it's fair to call it struggling when it's the default in just about every distro and has been smooth and stable for years.
by petepete 4y ago
Not sure it's fair to call it struggling when it's the default in just about every distro and has been smooth and stable for years.
- stonogo 4y agoI think it's fair, since every one of those distros ships an X11 fallback. I desperately want Wayland to succeed but exaggerating its current wins won't get us there. I don't want this post to focus on the negative, though, so I'll suggest a more positive argument: the people who would have been responsible for a hypothetical X12 instead decided to make Wayland. I can't think of a body of experts more likely to make a correct decision, so I have confidence in Wayland as the path forward.
- scrollaway 4y agoShipping a fallback doesn’t mean the alternative is not in daily use.
- petepete 4y agoFair. I'll admit there are a few rough edges, mainly caused by some apps (Slack) having older versions of certain libraries that makes some functionality (like screen sharing) break.
- saturn_vk 4y agoI mean, before Wayland every distro shipped with a text console as a fallback to X11