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> Other providers build in the relevant communities, which makes it easier for other distributions to import the next-gen stuff (e.g. X11 and its replacement Wa
by saidinesh5 3y ago
> Other providers build in the relevant communities, which makes it easier for other distributions to import the next-gen stuff (e.g. X11 and its replacement Wayland both came from Xorg).
It seems more like Redhat just employes more GNOME devs and thus Redhat's work seems like "default upstream work" while Canonical's seems like "rewrite because of NIH". It is not as if GNOME is super inviting to random outside contributions either.
I haven't used GNOME/Ubuntu in a long time but I remember when Canonical wanted to go Wayland first before rolling out their own display server for their phone use case. At that time, Wayland was mostly just in Meego and related devices.
I just wish these distro wars happened in the final UI layer of the software stack instead of duplicating enormous amounts of the useless/boring/core work over trivial differences. (rpm vs. deb, snaps vs. flatpaks, etc..)