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Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User (hackaday.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

X11 would have needed almost a complete rewrite. Wayland made sense. Eject the technical debt and focus on your use case. We aren't time sharing on a large central mini computer/mainframe anymore. And even then they generally are full single user systems run in parallel under a hypervisor these days. As wasteful as that might be.

But there's still occasions when you need to run a legacy application on old AIX, Irix, etc, or vax Hardware. And need a workstation. Which right now Wayland simply can't do without x.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

X11 isn't gonna disappear, it will always be there as a compatibility layer for old programs. That's okay.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh absolutely. I said as much an earlier post they will coexist even if Wayland will be the default for most distros.