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Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Wayland is still in development and the bandwagoning are the early adopters

Not to bust your chops but I'm not sure what you're implying. What isn't still in development? WordStar? X11? Mac System 7? And Wayland's initial release was 2008. That's 15 years ago. Who are these "early adopters" of which you speak anymore?