@joostruis you could stop using X11 today, couldn't you? Can't the rest of us keep doing so if we want? And live in peace and harmony?
@joostruis Who's ideal world? Personally, I can't see myself moving (due to fundamental designed-in problems with Wayland) so long as I have a choice.
@joostruis I know what you mean about efficiencies. The seeming-wasted-effort has been a feature (or a bug) of FOSS for decades; see also GTK and Qt. It’s a nuanced issue deeply tied up with people’s idea of what the freedom of free software means, and the trend towards “opinionated” software. There’s no one right answer I fear. I’m sad that some opinionated ideas got baked into wayland (e.g. client side decorations) which makes complete adoption that much harder.
@joostruis it’s got me thinking about what my very first experiences of the open source world were, coming from Windows in the late 90s. I’ve been toying with writing up a blog post, aiming not to be a memory-lane piece, but trying to compare the context for me then with the context for new folks now. So much has changed.
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