Killing X11

48 points by goranmoomin 1 month ago | 12 comments
  • chunkyks 1 month ago
    Wake me up when wayland just works for basic things I need and use daily, and I don't have to hear some diatribe about why what I do daily is wrong.

    (What I do may be "wrong" in some cosmic technological sense, but it's still "the only thing supported by the software vendor" and also "isn't actually broken" in the sense of "works just fine". Unlike wayland, which "doesn't work just fine")

    • lyu07282 1 month ago
      When Wayland has its regularly scheduled "break basic functionality" day of the month, distributions are still to this day telling their users to use Xorg as a workaround until it's fixed. If we want Wayland adoption we eventually have to get our shit together, it has been 16 years of this.

      Wayland was a misguided design to begin with, but fine we are stuck with it now. Now we need to get this thing into a stable state and stop people from breaking it every five minutes.

      • __s 4 weeks ago
        I'm on a pure wayland system, everything been fine for the last two years
        • 4 weeks ago
      • Lariscus 1 month ago
        Yes, its all a big conspiracy against X11, lets all slander these selfish open source developers that don't sacrifice enough of their time and dare to make technical choices you don't agree with. How about you step up and maintain the X11 backend for "QTK" yourself.
        • tetris11 1 month ago
          why is BGR chosen over RGB in wayland?
          • __s 1 month ago
            They aren't. This is fanfic

            Their point is the project that wants Wayland will randomly make changes like this on their Wayland code in such a way that breaks on X11. They say QTK as a reference to Qt or GTK

            • doubled112 1 month ago
              GNOME wants Wayland.

              Meanwhile (just last week) GTK was broken on Wayland on some older Intel GPUs because of the Vulkan drivers. X11 was spared because the X11 backend still uses OpenGL.

              Exciting stuff.

              • bsder 1 month ago
                They also broke XWayland via a Mutter change that clearly wasn't tested at all given how quickly the bug reports started pouring in.

                https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4133

                So, they don't want you to use X11 AND they don't want to support XWayland properly, either.

                None of this will get solved until some programmer does something similar to what the Pipewire guy did and rips the whole system down. In this case, probably starting from the assumption of "Vulkan is the base" and building up from there.

                • senko 4 weeks ago
                  So, a GPU driver broke and that’s Wayland’s fault?
            • 1oooqooq 1 month ago
              worked for systemd
              • spintin 1 month ago
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                • 1 month ago