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X are just userland APIs/protocols. Wayland is also just another set of userland APIs/protocols. It's an implementation detail users don't care about. Users ca

by megous 3y ago

X are just userland APIs/protocols. Wayland is also just another set of userland APIs/protocols. It's an implementation detail users don't care about. Users care about being able to complete tasks. For that they need good documentation, plenty of examples online, good availability of flexible software tools, and a good bonus is non-fragmented ecosystem for the basis of the system they're configuring/extending ... Wayland compositor kitchen sink approach is kinda working against easy adoption here. It's like now there are 8 different Xorg servers each with different bugs protocol feature support, configuration mechanisms, and driver compatibility issues.

kaba0 3y ago
Welcome to the bazaar vs cathedral. Linux doesn’t have a cathedral, and none of its benefits/disadvantages either. One “benefit” of the cathedral approach would be dictatorial control of the project, which could share resources better - apple can just say that this framework/whatever is deprecated in the next version and that’s it. Linux’s model is nothing like that.