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KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

AFAIK, Fedora is the only distro that's getting rid of X11 support, the other distros are still packaging it AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nobody's getting rid of X support. Not for several years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Go tell Fedora that then lol. They want it gone to the point where Nate is telling users who want X to stay away on that post. Xwayland I believe will still be around though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They'll recant after their usage drops to a fraction. This move makes zero sense no matter how you look at it. As a generalist distro it's too early to drop X.

If they want to become a niche distro whose only claim to fame is "we only pack Plasma 6", big whoop, like there's any shortage of that. What kind of distro defines itself by what it does not offer? And is that the kind of distro that Fedora aims to be?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hell, GNOME has been wayland-default since twenty-fucking-sixteen if I remember my dates right. You're overestimating the value X.Org provides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah its about time gnome drop support to encourage developers to switch to wayland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This is the kind of distro Fedora has always been, both for better and for worse.

I don't see this decision driving users away from Fedora any more than other decisions they've made in the past and will surely make in the future.

[–] CriticalMiss 1 points 6 months ago

There were news about Ubuntu doing it too some time ago, maybe they realized it’s not feasible yet. I don’t follow their development as I don’t use those distros