@jwz @marcan @whynothugo this question is posed totally inside out anyway. The argument is *why switch*? What’s the value proposition? The strong-arming and X11-shaming is because the value proposition of wayland is weak. I’ve switched to it twice, and back, as the list of broken things each time was absurd.
@whynothugo @jwz I accept that X is broken, and it’s a miracle it’s survived this long. And FOSS didn’t design it, we inherited it in the first place. I’m fairly sure some folks will step up to keep it on life support, at least for some platforms (and they’ll be ridiculed for it, like the sysvinit lovers). FWIW it makes perfect sense to me to focus on wayland for greenfield like your platform. 1/2
@whynothugo @jwz but elsewhere, Wayland was a golden opportunity to make something truly great. But sadly I don’t think its bugs will all just get fixed; it has fundamental, intractable design flaws (I’ll dig out the references if I really must). So for incumbent X users, the argument is to moved from one intractably broken (but somehow used for decades) system to a new, also broken one. 2/2
@whynothugo sorry for the delay, it took me a while to re-find this. https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2022-06-10-wayland-xorg/wayland-xorg.html