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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
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I love how people are complaining about Wayland not being ready or being unstable (whatever that even means, because it's a protocol), while it's the default on both GNOME and Plasma now, which combined probably run on more than 50% of Linux desktops these days.
And not only that, but Cinnamon, Xfce and others want to follow, so very clearly people who know a fair bit about desktops seem to disagree with Wayland being "not ready".
Wayland implementations can still be hot garbage on any of the major DE's depending on the hardware and use case. The "iT WoRks FiNe FoR mE, SmOoTh aS butter" crowd don't help this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of issues that people write off as a "linux" problem is actually a Wayland problem and don't bother to test under a true x11 only environment (KDE x11 does not count). My ultimate issue with this constant Wayland changeover evangelising is the failure to identify actual end user problems that need solving so badly that it requires forcing through an entirely new and often broken system.