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Rollout of Wayland has not been the smoothest and I think among its major issues is the slow pace of development - it took it 10+ years to become default and ce
by kombine 2y ago
Rollout of Wayland has not been the smoothest and I think among its major issues is the slow pace of development - it took it 10+ years to become default and certain features present in X11 are still missing. Having said that, after I switched to KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland (on Intel and AMD graphics), I've noted a significant improvement in responsiveness and snappiness of the desktop. I know nothing of how Wayland works, but I assume this is the reason the replacement was needed in the first place. I had to replace my GPU from NVIDIA to AMD, but I don't regret it (all my deep learning compute is on the HPC cluster anyway).
- kenniskrag 2y agoOne reason was, that the security model wasn't enough anymore. E.g. every application was trusted and can listen to key inputs e.g. steal passwords and credit card infos. Btw there was an issue that screenshotting in wayland was not possible. But easy in X11 because everything was visible. Don't know much about the architecture about wayland but I think grahic driver handling changed in wayland too.