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

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Who "promoted" it as superior to X11? Pretty much everyone I watch and read said that Wayland had their problems and they are working on it, but it is the future. There are ideas and concepts that are superior to X11, but it does not mean its fleshed out. I don't think anyone said that Wayland is superior to X11 in every aspect. Not even the most die hard fan say it. :D

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Canonical. They had that brilliant idea of wayland-by-default in 2017.

It was a great clusterfuck of frustration for me and other Ubuntu users

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Fedora even switched to Wayland by default in 2016 (at least for the GNOME release). I don't know what they were thinking. 8 to 9 years before they were already using Wayland... and it still have some "problems". Can't imagine what you were going through. :D

But compared to Fedora, Ubuntu only did change temporarily to Wayland right? I mean it was not an LTS version. I installed LTS 18.04 and don't remember anything like that by default.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah Ubuntu backed out with the next major release. Probably because of user complaints.

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