Article 5DNSM “Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!”

“Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!”

by
Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#5DNSM)

Here we go.

Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks only seem to care about Gnome, and alienating everyone else in the process. DO NOT INSTALL WAYLAND! Let Wayland not destroy everything and then have other people fix the damage it caused. Or force more Red Hat/Gnome components (glib, Portals, Pipewire) on everyone!

I'll save you a read and summarise the article' so you can do something more productive, like I don't know, cleaning your floors with a toothpick or something: my tools and components written specifically for X and its APIs do not work under Wayland, therefore Wayland is garbage and shit".

Wayland is not X.org. Let me repeat that. Wayland is not X.org. If you need the functionality that X.org delivers, then you shouldn't be using Wayland. This is like buying a Mac and complaining your Windows applications don't work.

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