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I switched to Wayland without even noticing when I did a fresh install of Debian a few years back. I didn't realise Debian had switched to Wayland by default in
by kiwijamo 3y ago
I switched to Wayland without even noticing when I did a fresh install of Debian a few years back. I didn't realise Debian had switched to Wayland by default in the version I was upgrading to. I honestly only noticed several months later when I turned on some knobs in Firefox to enable hardware acceleration and discovered that it was running on Wayland all along.
My last experience of X11 had me fiddling with a text-based config file to disable screen tearing on a fairly common Intel graphics chipset. That was only a few years ago -- despite it being a solved issue for as long as I can remember in other windowing system such as Windows and MacOS.
That fiddling with a config file to solve such a trivial issue is a thing of the past is largely due to Wayland finally bringing Linux graphics into the 21st century. I am much happier with Wayland just performing as expected from a 21st century graphics stack right out of the box with no additional work required. It quite literally just works with no fuss whatsoever.
Thank you Wayland team, your work is much appreciated.