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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried unsuccessfully to get this working for quite some time and broke my xrandr settings quite a few times

With Wayland/gnome I just click a button in the settings gui and it works flawlessly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With X/i3 I had to read and the result works well. With Sway I had to read and the result works poorly. So is sway better for the illiterate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would you not say the best case scenario is for it to just work great straight away and not require you to read a manual or do any debugging at all just to configure your display scale?

Also sway/i3 aren't known to be "it just works" kinda window managers anyway they're definitely aimed at people who like to tinker