I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).
I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn’t go nuts either.
Made me think maybe people aren’t actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.
It’s no more special than what they had to do to support X…
Actually guake already works perfectly.
Security, proper rendering, mixed refresh rate displays, color management, HDR, no more insane hacks, I could go on. Also, you can’t actually name a way in which your productivity is actually affected.
Other OS’s DO have this issue, you have no idea the things macos has enforced, and we have backwards compatibility using xwayland, being forced to update to a new standard IS normal for operating systems, linux just delayed it for as long as possible. The problems with X11 are MUCH more vast than the problems other operating systems have.
Name one actual problem with the design.
That’s 100% nvidia’s fault and almost completely resolved
That wouldn’t have worked with X11 at all, because x11 is so fundamentally broken that making a successor to X is completely actually impossible, there’s a reason all the X11 devs which you believe are so brilliant for making x11 decided to switch to developing wayland, and decided that what you want is actually completely impossible while making an actually well designed desktop. Please actually look into the history of this. The people who actually know how X11 works, refuse to work on it, and for very good reason. If what you were saying was true, there would be an X12 project in the works… but there is not, because it is fundamentally awful.
It’s also the default on KDE now, also, I don’t understand why you seem to believe they should’ve rushed this out, what they did was correct, x11 wasn’t going anywhere, you can still use X11, the point of wayland was to redesign things from the ground up to be as perfect as possible, and they’re (slowly) achieving exactly that.
Use x11 if any of your usecases aren’t met by wayland, it’s not like they deleted it. But wayland is the future. They were right to make it partially non-backwards compatible, they needed to restart from scratch.
You can’t really spam massive essays while ignoring most of what was said or pretending it’s not true. When referring to GNOME Devs losing their mind I was talking about the design decisions of nu-Gnome, and you just went off talking about something being rushed?
Yeah great example to follow /s
Honestly I’m happy to give Wayland a chance when it starts working with software like Guake, but as it stands, it does not, based on currently stable versions of both from the Debian repos. Until then, it’s just a useless protocol made with extremely anal design of requiring apps to be heavily modified to support it for uhmmm no reason as the issues with xorg are minimal really.
Guake works perfectly if the global shortcuts protocol has been implemented, and even if it isn’t it only takes a minute to setup
is that your only thing?
I can show you how to set it up if you’d like, it’s incredibly easy