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X11 was and still is superior to wayland
by LeeCyriaca 2y ago
X11 was and still is superior to wayland
- WD-42 2y agoMy tearing-free window movement begs to differ
- Longhanks 2y agoI haven't had screen tearing on KDE 5, now 6, in the last at least 5 years with Intel and/or NVIDIA graphics. This is not a problem of X11 itself.
- cies 2y agoIndeed. Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) and multi-monitor with factional scaling per monitor; those were the things that apparently were to super-duper hard to fix in X11. Maybe a years or two until Wayland gets to full feature parity (except for features Wayland specifically does not have like network support and drawing window borders etc.) In those same two year I expect all app I use to be running native on Wayland as well. (IntelliJ being the main app I'm waiting for and they are making progress)
- account42 2y ago> Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) That's a feature, not a security issue.
- cies 2y agoI beg to differ. Any closed source app could easily contain a keylogger: great feature! If we want people to run closed source on Linux, we need facilities to sandbox these apps like on other OSes. Flatpak is moving in this direction. Wayland's security also helps.
- cies 2y ago> X11 was and still is superior to wayland "was" sure. "still is" it depends on your use case. for me Wayland overtook X11 as superior in the last year.