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This discussion feels like it's going in circles. Some important points to add -- Wayland already has some features that will never come to X11: * Support for

This discussion feels like it's going in circles. Some important points to add -- Wayland already has some features that will never come to X11: * Support for different screen resolution across screens. I would venture a guess that most of us plug a screen into our laptop these days, I use this feature almost every day. * Similarly, different screen refresh rates across screens. I personally don't care. * Scaling of the home bar or whatever it's called. Couldn't be scaled in X11 in many cases, remained too small. Much better handled in Wayland. Essential feature for me.

ahartmetz 3y ago
Disclaimer: I think that Wayland is a much cleaner technology than X11 and I am planning to switch to it in, say, roughly a year - I currently don't need any Wayland features, so I'd be getting mostly downsides. You can tell that I'm not a raging fan. But some of your points are wrong or misstated. * Different screen resolutions are obviously supported on X11, you probably meant scale factors? * Scaling of the, I guess taskbar, on X11? has nothing to do with the window system. It has worked for 15+ years on KDE Plasma and I'm currently using it.
- juujian 3y ago
  Haven't looked at the details in a while since I have been using only Wayland for close to 5 years not. You might be right that there was a scaling factor issue I filed as "does not work (for me)." The task bar, was that switching on the fly and scaling. Might have been having issues switching back and forth between laptop screen and external and again filing that like the issue above.
jeroenhd 3y ago
> Support for different screen resolution across screens I think you mean scaling; screen resolutions aren't a problem on X11. It even does an inferior version of fractional scaling if you use the right software. It's much worse than Wayland's implementation, though. > Scaling of the home bar or whatever it's called. Couldn't be scaled in X11 in many cases, remained too small. Much better handled in Wayland. Essential feature for me. That's DE specific. HiDPI scaling is kind of a mess in Linux if you use screens of different sizes. Even on Wayland you're far from guaranteed a decent experience.

ahartmetz 3y ago

Disclaimer: I think that Wayland is a much cleaner technology than X11 and I am planning to switch to it in, say, roughly a year - I currently don't need any Wayland features, so I'd be getting mostly downsides. You can tell that I'm not a raging fan. But some of your points are wrong or misstated. * Different screen resolutions are obviously supported on X11, you probably meant scale factors? * Scaling of the, I guess taskbar, on X11? has nothing to do with the window system. It has worked for 15+ years on KDE Plasma and I'm currently using it.

juujian 3y ago
Haven't looked at the details in a while since I have been using only Wayland for close to 5 years not. You might be right that there was a scaling factor issue I filed as "does not work (for me)." The task bar, was that switching on the fly and scaling. Might have been having issues switching back and forth between laptop screen and external and again filing that like the issue above.

jeroenhd 3y ago

> Support for different screen resolution across screens I think you mean scaling; screen resolutions aren't a problem on X11. It even does an inferior version of fractional scaling if you use the right software. It's much worse than Wayland's implementation, though. > Scaling of the home bar or whatever it's called. Couldn't be scaled in X11 in many cases, remained too small. Much better handled in Wayland. Essential feature for me. That's DE specific. HiDPI scaling is kind of a mess in Linux if you use screens of different sizes. Even on Wayland you're far from guaranteed a decent experience.