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Briefly: it's a big lift for all the different desktop environments (DE) to move from X11 to Wayland. Lots of moving parts; re-implementing and re-factoring is
by djbusby 3y ago
Briefly: it's a big lift for all the different desktop environments (DE) to move from X11 to Wayland. Lots of moving parts; re-implementing and re-factoring is needed.
- londons_explore 3y agoThe vast majority of users today run a hybrid of Wayland and XWayland... Getting the worst of both worlds, and extra bugs to go on top...
- nolist_policy 3y agoThat is not true though, XWayland is better maintained than native Xorg. It is here to stay for backwards compatibility. Disclaimer: I run ChromeOS and Wayland just works.
- djbusby 3y agoOh, I've got a Chromebook; didn't know it was all Wayland. I'm thinking that it "just works" there because G has more resources to patch all the needed features. More resources than KDE or Gnome or others have available.
- NekkoDroid 3y agoI assume its mostly because how you said they can do it and the impact is really only limited to their system AND chromebooks are to my knowledge way more focused of a UX than what Wayland needs to be able to support so they can be even more opinionated about what they support and how