Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release

[Alexmitter]

Over history there has been over 30+ different implementations of the X11 server bit with no common shared code. There is also over 13 different X11 compositors.

last 20 years of Linux we got use to X11 server=x.org X11 server without the competitors. The reality is before 2000 there were quite a few different X11 servers that commercials parties were selling for Linux, BSD and Unix systems.. The early time frame of X11 is quite fragmented.

Keep in mind, Xorg only exists since 2004, and it still had to run as root to run DDX drivers until 2008 with the release of DRI2. Only after DRI2, it got proper GPU access.

I love how the X fans pretend that X was such a stable solution for all those years when in fact it was not, it was everything but a standardized proper working system. At best, you could say that its somewhat acceptable since the DRI3 release in 2013.

[oiaohm]

probably already as many as independent Xorg/X11 compositors.

Over history there has been over 30+ different implementations of the X11 server bit with no common shared code. There is also over 13 different X11 compositors.

last 20 years of Linux we got use to X11 server=x.org X11 server without the competitors. The reality is before 2000 there were quite a few different X11 servers that commercials parties were selling for Linux, BSD and Unix systems.. The early time frame of X11 is quite fragmented.

[Alexmitter]

How many independent wayland compositors are there for Linux users?

probably already as many as independent Xorg/X11 compositors.

[Mani]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Wayland

wiki lists 11. neglecting taiwains though.

But a great deal of those listed on Wikipedia rely on WLROOTS.
This includes

• Sway (reference implementation)
• Wayfire
• Way Cooler
• Hikari

also missing here is valve's gamescope (also dependent on WLROOTS)

So basically there are (ordered in context of utilisability/usability to my perception, note this is totally subjective...)

• WLROOTS
• Mutter
• Kwin
• Weston
• Enlightment
• Mir
• Taiwins

[fafreeman]

How many independent wayland compositors are there for Linux users?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Wayland

wiki lists 11. neglecting taiwains though.

[Grinch]

How many independent wayland compositors are there for Linux users?

The more the merrier in my opinion, since that is what typically lead to fast progress overall. I don't mind a 'de facto' standard, as long as that is the result of its technical merits, rather than a lack of competition.

[nist]

How many independent wayland compositors are there for Linux users?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release

Introduced last year was Taiwins as a compact Wayland compositor. While early on it began using Sway's WLROOTS library, it ended up writing its own Wayland compositor library (libtaiwins) and recently hit its version 0.3 milestone...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Taiwins-0.3-Released