Originally posted by Zan Lynx
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So, I can finally "ssh -X me@myotherbox" and fire up remote apps just like they're native on my local client? For several machines? If not, that's a deal breaker, I run several different architectures and the apps only run on specific ones. Right now I can basically merge then all together onto one client with X.
I can run Wayland on my high security box, the one with just a 2D blob-free GPU because all the 3D ones require signed proprietary firmware to run? At the same (more than useable) performance that X gives me now?
I don't have to rely on my applications not lying to me with fake window headers and controls, i.e. the window manager now draws and manages the controls instead of the application? If not, the audit scope just expanded a lot compared to X.
I can now change out parts of my desktop, mix and match like in the X days with bits of this desktop, apps from another toolkit, a WM from yet another, and they all play reasonably well together? If not, well, who's going to write my custom desktop and integrated apps for me on their dime so that I can switch to Wayland, given that everything works the way I need it right now on X?
Look, no one's saying X is perfect. It's just that Wayland has introduced a lot of regressions in functionality that i use daily, and until those regressions are 100% resolved I won't be switching (or maybe I should start looking at the BSDs, who knows).
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