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> 15 years old and still sucks People dragged their feet on Wayland support for at least 10 years.

• okasaki 2y ago
  Yes, because it sucks.
  • orangeboats 2y ago
    Maybe because no one bothered to improve it for over a decade? ;) The Wayland developers have limited manpower. Obviously it would take a long them for them to get Wayland to reach a critical mass when there wasn't support from the community. Sort of feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • ahartmetz 2y ago
    The real problem was that Wayland was extremely bare-bones initially and needed many extensions to approach the usefulness of X11 for desktop use - it basically just supported dispatching input and blitting rectangles. And initially, getting extensions standardized was like pulling teeth. These days, "obvious" extensions get in in a matter of months (about one DE release cycle), not to mention that most already exist by now.