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    [–] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    I don't think it's heresy, but I always find it funny that an extremely vocal community shits on systemd for being a bloated tentacular monster shat should be abandoned, but praise X for being a bloated tentacular monster.

    In a way, Wayland is much closer to the Unix Philosophy than X. It's a display protocol, nothing more. Everything else should be implemented by the applications using this protocol. X has grown over the decades to include way too many features and edge cases.

    Translation layers like XWayland are important and extremely useful for the transition period, but shouldn't be taken as a sign that Wayland is not ready for prime time. If 10% the people shitting on Wayland had instead worked on adding Wayland functionality to their favorite apps (that includes you fuckers at nVidia), the transition would have ended years ago.