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Years After Wayland 1.0, Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Wayland Desktop?
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Originally posted by Scias View PostAnyways Wayland is already used extensively outside of the Linux desktop scope.
For example here in France, already millions (yes) of people are using it without knowing on their TV. Our second largest ISP (Free) provides to its subscribers a sort of Media Center (Freebox player) box you plug on your TV and that thing runs on Linux and (qt)Wayland.
Also multi DPI support (High DPI and low DPI on the same PC with dynamic scaling between these monitors) is not really possible with X but doable with Wayland.
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I'm surprised anyone is defending X. It's just a mess. Wayland has some drawbacks as a result of its design decisions, but I don't think there can be much question that it is an important step towards making linux a modern and useable desktop OS.
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Hopefully not, there are a lot of very common features which could be implemented in a completely WM-agnostic way using X11 calls only which are now impossible on Wayland due to 'security' 'fixes'.
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the big hit for wayland is the tear free desktop and better power savings and i hope a better dual graphics support.
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X11 doesn't even support secure screen savers. If it crashes, the desktop is exposed. I've experienced crashing 3d xscreensavers numerous times with AMD hardware and buggy drivers. It's a ridiculous piece of shit.
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Originally posted by Master5000 View PostOK so people will have to suffer poorer performance and bugs for a while (wayland will not be perfect in the beginning). But they don't gain anything. Niiiiiice! I wonder why Windows is so much more popular....
Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
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Originally posted by pq1930562 View Post
I thought one big advantage which Wayland would bring would be a perfectly V-synced desktop with no tearing whatsoever.
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Is this assumption incorrect?
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I want to see Wayland enabling some application that's not possible/is very hard to do with X.
Because so far I haven't seen developers raving about how much easier it si to develop for Wayland.Last edited by Scias; 25 October 2015, 07:31 PM.
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The thing that most of people forget is that Wayland is just a protocol and is just one piece of the gigantic puzzle.
A lot of work had to be done to untie X from everything else in the Linux world. DRI2/DRI3, KMS, GBM, DMA-BUF, rootless X, consolekit/logind were necessary work before Wayland could even work decently. Not to mention most of toolkits/apps/window managers were (and some still are) "hardcoded" against X and used X11 calls exclusively.
So no matter what the change won't happen overnight and it's already quite awesome that GNOME 3.16/3.18 under Wayland is almost perfectly usable for daily use considering Linux revolved around X11 not so long ago.
Anyways Wayland is already used extensively outside of the Linux desktop scope.
For example here in France, already millions (yes) of people are using it without knowing on their TV. Our second largest ISP (Free) provides to its subscribers a sort of Media Center (Freebox player) box you plug on your TV and that thing runs on Linux and (qt)Wayland.
Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostUnfortunately, Weston with Pixman is still significantly slower than Xorg with XRender (about 40 FPS vs 160 FPS, the latter with Compton).
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Originally posted by SyXbiT View PostYou want Valve to release Half-Life 3 only for Wayland ?
Because so far I haven't seen developers raving about how much easier it si to develop for Wayland.
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