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I remain cautiously pessimistic about it; my desktops are full of custom window management scripts, on-the-fly editing borders, transparency control, keystroke

I remain cautiously pessimistic about it; my desktops are full of custom window management scripts, on-the-fly editing borders, transparency control, keystroke display etc. using devilspie, xdotool, wmctrl and the like. So far I have not found any Wayland compositors that can replace all those tools. Plus, I have no use for the security model Wayland is based on; I am on a single user desktop and my apps are curated by my distribution. The browser is the only liability, but I have a separate system for my banking; otherwise, if someone pwns my $HOME, there are a billion things they can do with .bashrc and the entire .local/share folder before bothering with X vs. Wayland. I am beginning to think that the people who say Wayland was created for a corporate environment first and foremost are correct. Sigh...

ragnese 3y ago
> I am beginning to think that the people who say Wayland was created for a corporate environment first and foremost are correct. Sigh... There is a giant gap between your use-case (no third-party apps, totally separate machine for accessing sensitive websites, etc) and a "corporate environment". The vast, vast, majority of users (yes, even Linux users) would like to access their bank's web page without worrying that some security flaw somewhere (maybe even in a "curated" app they installed via official repositories) is allowing someone to upload screenshots of their browser window to some nefarious third-party. I'm not optimistic about Wayland, either, but I'm sure as hell not satisfied with X.
Vilian 3y ago
you could be very happy with Wayfire :), it's very customizable, hyperland too i learned about wayfire here https://youtu.be/s8UbKM9R4p0?si=Y1O8qBdMB1FjpXXA https://youtu.be/s8UbKM9R4p0?si=Y1O8qBdMB1FjpXXA