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There’s a subtlety here. Something can still have a few bugs without being bug ridden. It’s the difference between a puddle and a flood. X11 with i3, the setup
by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
There’s a subtlety here. Something can still have a few bugs without being bug ridden. It’s the difference between a puddle and a flood.
X11 with i3, the setup I’ve used for years, is not bug ridden. There are quirks, but nothing fundamental, nothing that makes it a bad user experience.
Wayland, on the other hand, has been a dreadful experience. Some of the most fundamental things, like cursor rendering, window rendering, multiple monitors, clipboard, all have problems doing the basics.
To be clear, this is what I actually expected. My disappointment is that people have been preaching about Wayland for years, pushing a stronger and stronger line that it is fantastic, has great support, and is ready to switch to now. That just isn’t the case.
- kaba0 3y ago> Wayland, on the other hand, has been a dreadful experience That sentence is literally meaningless. What wayland? It is still a protocol. Is “the web” bug ridden? Or http? No. A browser can be. So let’s talk about sway or gnome or whatever specifics, otherwise we will just continue to type into the air.
- i-use-nixos-btw 3y agoHyprland, which I believe is based on Sway but I’m not sure. Either way, most of the problems I’ve been having do not seem to be implementation specific, and instead stem from buggy usage of the protocol. It’s no secret that Electron’s wayland support is an ongoing problem, for instance.
- kaba0 3y agoThat’s an ultra niche compositor, so I don’t think it’s fair to conclude anything about the wider protocol. Also, there is a difference between higher level things not working, and something as basic as cursor/window rendering not working - the latter is absolutely stable and working fine since forever.