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    Phoronix: The Work Ahead For Ubuntu 21.04 To Switch To Wayland By Default

    Last month was the delightful news that Ubuntu 21.04 is aiming to use Wayland by default for non-NVIDIA systems on the GNOME desktop rather than the X.Org session. While there is two months to go until the Ubuntu 21.04 release, there still is more work ahead in making that shift a reality...

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    Below is the Wayland metabug for Firefox that tracks all all Wayland-related bugs in Firefox. It seems to be looking good.
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    • #3
      Sounds good! Though I guess they're pretty close to their feature freeze...

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      • #4
        Really interesting work! It finally feels like things are speeding up and the key players are finally migrating and fixing the smaller issues that (some) people complain about.
        Personally I haven't had any issues with wayland in a couple of years, but the 'paper cuts' need to get fixed for it to become the de facto standard.

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        • #5
          The Ubuntu developers working on the Wayland-by-default transition have mad their Trello workboard now public and it offers a glimpse at some of their planning and challenges around this significant shift in moving to Wayland by default.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by f0rmat View Post

            Typo...made
            Don't get MAD, get AMD.

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            • #7
              Good. It should speed up Wayland adoption.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Volta View Post
                Good. It should speed up Wayland adoption.
                Indeed. Some people don't like to admit it, but Ubuntu is the head honcho in the Linux desktop. What they do affects a lot of third party software development. They adopting Wayland by default, will certainly give that final push some developers needed, to start supporting Wayland properly.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by M@GOid View Post

                  Indeed. Some people don't like to admit it, but Ubuntu is the head honcho in the Linux desktop. What they do affects a lot of third party software development. They adopting Wayland by default, will certainly give that final push some developers needed, to start supporting Wayland properly.
                  e.g. Nvidia?

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                  • #10
                    I still remember their first tentative to switch to Wayland was like 7 years ago..

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