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Why Wayland adoption to have official support in programs is so slow? (wayland.freedesktop.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it's not easy as "Wayland support? Yes" (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it's not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it will use X11.

When Wayland is detected, it is the preferred system, otherwise X11 will be used

Also XWayland has many limitations as X11 does.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

May programs do though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Minority rather than majority.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

because for most of them, there is nothing to port them to. Wayland is incomplete... by design.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What are advantages of being

incomplete... by design ?

I know Wayland is simpler but it should cover almost every highly requested feature if developers need it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

"almost" being the key word there.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

It is still young and underdeveloped.

It is advertised to be simpler, but I don't understand any of this words thrown in this thread. And I don't care. Pulseaudio and pipewire is still making me troubles, even thou alsa worked without issues for me.

Point it, make it clear and stable and we will come. Until than we will use the beast we know. It os mich easier when there are no options, but Wayland is fighting something that exists and it takes time and effort.

Another problem is they pushed it to early and people got burned. Until I start seeing "I switched to Wayland in one command and everything works" I (as a user) will not touch it (unles my distro decides to drop X).

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