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Wayland or X11? Why?
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FTFY.
What the hell kind of gatekeeping is this anyway?
Fix your wayland piece of shit or get it the fuck out of linux. Gatekeeping my ass. It does not FULLY replace X11 functionality, and they have no intent to fix that. Why go backwards and break what works for our daily jobs? It fucking moronic.
No kidding. That's the entire mission statement of Wayland.
Nothing is stopping you from using X11 outside of company policy, which is an entirely different problem.
No it's not.
I'm a longtime user of X11 and vastly prefer it for what I do, but I'm not going to force the opinion of my preference on others with different use case requirements.
C'mon, the *nix world is big enough for choice.
Won't be long now before your your favorite DE's will only be available on Wayland, and be missing features because of it.
The concept of work is relative. See below.
That doesn't concern me at all personally—and if I wore your temperament on my sleeve, DEs should get the fuck away from X11 altogether.
My use case requirements have never involved DEs, and if I ever want to flirt with that kind of casual experience it may as well be with new boobs like Wayland.
I could huff "get off my lawn" just as hard as any other, but why? Let people choose whatever they want.
@PseudoSpock @shadearg can you provide real world example of X11 being pushed out ? Like a soft actually supporting it then dropping the support in favor of wayland ? I am curious
I'm not aware of any software phasing out X11 support in favor of Wayland.
Sway is coming for i3 for example.
@PseudoSpock but it is a completely different project, it is only i3 compatible as it could have been dwm compatible without being dwm.
It's intent is to replace it.