Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate.

“In this context, “breaking everything” is another perhaps less accurate way of saying “not everything is fully ported yet”. This porting is necessary because Wayland is designed to target a future that doesn’t include 100% drop-in compatibility with everything we did in the past, because it turns out that a lot of those things don’t make sense anymore. For the ones that do, a compatibility layer (XWayland) is already provided, and anything needing deeper system integration generally has a path forward (Portals and Wayland protocols and PipeWire) or is being actively worked on. It’s all happening!”

Nate’s Original Blog Post

    • S410@kbin.social
      192·
      11 months ago

      To provide features that Xorg can’t.
      If you don’t need features like fractional scaling, VRR, touchscreen gestures, etc. you won’t notice a difference.
      People who do use those, will. Because for them, those features would be missing or not complete on Xorg.

      • superbirra@lemmy.world
        43·
        11 months ago

        mmmh, I bet I will not notice any difference also if I don’t do shit and keep whatever is working until the day I’ll have to switch because my distro drops the packages 🤷🏼

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      Because it fixes all the issues I had with X. Everything runs a bit faster and is smoother plus inputs behave like they should.

      • superbirra@lemmy.world
        73·
        11 months ago

        sorry, my rhetorical question was obviously intended as why I should bother. I don’t see any value in stopping you doing whatever you think is better for you, in fact it is exactly what annoys me the most :)

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          143·
          11 months ago

          Well Xorg is pretty much unmaintained and is on its death bed. Modern hardware and software are slowly favoring Wayland due to it being much simpler by design.

          • superbirra@lemmy.world
            34·
            11 months ago

            well, everything which I use runs well on xorg, and I’d need to change relevant parts of my daily stack in order to use wayland sooo … :)

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          101·
          11 months ago

          why I should bother

          Bother to do what? As you said, when your distro switches you go with it and notice no difference. You don’t have to bother to do anything.

            • bastion@feddit.nl
              3·
              11 months ago

              The point of open source is kinda that you have the freedom to do as you will.

              The point of packaged distros is so that you don’t have to do too much.

              Do as you will, brother, do as you will.