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I think I'd be a lot more excited about this if it didn't seem to be bought into the wayland hype train. I feel like they made a lot of good decisions in being

by abeyer 3y ago

I think I'd be a lot more excited about this if it didn't seem to be bought into the wayland hype train. I feel like they made a lot of good decisions in being simple enough without too simple, and backwards compatible enough without too much legacy... but imho wayland doesn't fit in that same space for me (at least not yet.)

q66 3y ago
good news for you then, since there is a full distribution of xorg in the contrib repo and it's not expected to go away anytime soon (if ever)
- abeyer 3y ago
  Good to know. Their package search from the main site must not include contrib,though, as it only turns up wayland related packages, and nothing x11/xorg.
  - q66 3y ago
    there is a combobox to pick the repository: https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=xserver-xorg*&repo=contrib&origin= https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=xserver-xorg*&r...
eternityforest 3y ago
It seems like all the big name companies are 100% for Wayland, breaking compatibility with them seems like a hassle, regardless of how good Wayland itself is.
- abeyer 3y ago
  > It seems like all the big name companies are 100% for Wayland nvidia? > breaking compatibility with them seems like a hassle They don't seem to be afraid of breaking compatibility -- witness deb/rpm, coreutils, glibc, etc...