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Hackaday: Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User (hackaday.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The biggest issue for last ~8 years was that wayland was promoted as "superior" while lacking even most basic functions.

V-Sync control? Nope. Hidpi scaling? Nope. Only in 2024 it got to the point where it's actually usable and these features were implemented.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Who "promoted" it as superior to X11? Pretty much everyone I watch and read said that Wayland had their problems and they are working on it, but it is the future. There are ideas and concepts that are superior to X11, but it does not mean its fleshed out. I don't think anyone said that Wayland is superior to X11 in every aspect. Not even the most die hard fan say it. :D

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Canonical. They had that brilliant idea of wayland-by-default in 2017.

    It was a great clusterfuck of frustration for me and other Ubuntu users

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Fedora even switched to Wayland by default in 2016 (at least for the GNOME release). I don't know what they were thinking. 8 to 9 years before they were already using Wayland... and it still have some "problems". Can't imagine what you were going through. :D

    But compared to Fedora, Ubuntu only did change temporarily to Wayland right? I mean it was not an LTS version. I installed LTS 18.04 and don't remember anything like that by default.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Fedora 42 even eliminated X11 as an option (I think they're reversing that stance now, though), which made it unusable on my (now dead) Nvidia laptop with dual monitors. I thought they really jumped the gun on that one.

    I ended up jumping to AMD graphics so I wouldn't have any problems with Wayland, but then discovered there's a nasty bug that causes frequent system freezes on AMD systems. Thankfully I was on Debian, so I could easily switch back to X11. Things have been stable now, but I just feel like I can't win with Wayland 😅

    Wayland does seem to work well with Intel graphics, at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, they are reverting back. Fedora users always live on the edge. They are basically (but not quite right) "always" the first accepting a new technology. Not even Archlinux does that. Arch users obviously live on the edge too, but for other reasons. :D

    But wasn't Fedora not going to discontinue X11 support only for GNOME version? I thought other spins are still allowed to support it, but doesn't matter anymore, because they reverting this idea back. I think. But why didn't you switch to another distribution, instead buying new hardware, if that was the only problem?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    From what I recall when trying it, I don't think KDE had X11 as an option either, which is my preferred DE. The other spins did retain X11 though.

    My laptop with Nvidia graphics became unstable due to faulty hardware, so I used the opportunity to switch to an AMD desktop to hopefully have longer term reliability. I would've stuck with the laptop and just used Linux Mint, had it not failed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    My girlfriend decided to make a switch to Linux, and I installed Fedora 42.

    It immediately broke her workflow as one of her work apps (Omnissa Horizon, previously known as VMware Horizon) explicitly refused to work with Wayland, stating it will only work with X11.

    Had to switch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

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