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Over the many years Wayland has been promising to be a better toaster, I have tried to use it. Every single time, I had to go back to X11 because shit simply d
by ur-whale 1y ago
Over the many years Wayland has been promising to be a better toaster, I have tried to use it.
Every single time, I had to go back to X11 because shit simply don't work.
At this point, I am dead convinced that Wayland is simply broken by design.
As a matter of fact, they justify their existence by systematically pointing out how broken the architecture of X11 is and how a "modern" replacement is severely needed.
True, X11's architecture is indeed bad and creates lots of problems.
However, unlike Wayland, it DOES WORK.
Also, and very unfortunately for Wayland, the team working on it seem oblivious to the fact that trying to replace a badly designed system does not automatically make the replacement any better.
At this point, I would call Wayland a complete failure.
Worse, they've been at it for over 15 years and it is still fundamentally unusable.
The fact that Ubuntu is planning to deprecate X11 is, at this point in time, a catastrophe as far as I'm concerned.
- skykooler 1y agoThe only reason I use Wayland is display scaling - with a high DPI screen, many apps are blurry or inconsistently scaled under X11. Given the parade of other issues Wayland brings, I wish the development effort were instead spent on improving highDPI support in X11.
- Ballas 1y agoIn xfce, setting DPI in Appearance works perfectly (in my experience). Just don't try to scale with display settings...
- igor47 1y agoO man I recently tried to use fractional scaling on Wayland, and it went very poorly. Electron apps like slack or signal do not support it, and flameshot also works very poorly. But I guess at least fractional scaling is to an option... (Which I had to enable in some secret setting somewhere)