NetBSD Has Some Wayland Support But X11 Is Far More Mature

[kpedersen]

NetBSD should work like Linux.

The vast majority used to provide this same old-fashioned "insight" as early as the 90's about how Linux should just be like Windows.

Turns out they were wrong (and just producing pointless noise). Just like your above statement is.

Imagine what a mess we would be in if people who mattered actually listened to these luddites.

[uid313]

SWC is one of the original independent wayland compositor libraries (the other major one being WLC). It's still maintained, and the changes for NetBSD were actually rather small - https://github.com/michaelforney/swc...39f31b4aabccee . It's written by Michael Forney, who also wrote the ninja-compatible build tool, samurai.

I doubt GNOME or KWin would be fun projects to try to port to NetBSD as wayland compositors. Other compositors likely have little interest in being NetBSD compatible -- I think the only BSD they really care about is FreeBSD, which is known to have mature (and more Linux-compatible) input and graphics stacks.

Yeah, I don't think any developer wants to bother trying to port GNOME or KWin to some very little used BSD that nobody uses. NetBSD should just change their system so that it can run unmodified GNOME or KWin. NetBSD should work like Linux.

[DonnieWest]

It sucks to play catch up with main Linux distros.

It's only recently that I've been able to run a fully Wayland setup on Arch and be fully happy with the results. For a few years I tended to pop between i3 and sway just because of this bug or the other. I've been able to switch my wife's Gnome setup to be the same w/o complaints.

Now that it's relatively stable and everyone can start making the leap, *bsds are expected to just jump on board as though there are no additional hoops to jump through.

[BwackNinja]

Oh this SWC compositor maybe is not as cool as GNOME and KWin.
I never heard of SWC before either, so it doesn't seem popular, maybe its not so good.

SWC is one of the original independent wayland compositor libraries (the other major one being WLC). It's still maintained, and the changes for NetBSD were actually rather small - https://github.com/michaelforney/swc...39f31b4aabccee . It's written by Michael Forney, who also wrote the ninja-compatible build tool, samurai.

I doubt GNOME or KWin would be fun projects to try to port to NetBSD as wayland compositors. Other compositors likely have little interest in being NetBSD compatible -- I think the only BSD they really care about is FreeBSD, which is known to have mature (and more Linux-compatible) input and graphics stacks.

[tuxd3v]

NetBSD, has a very nice support for ARM devices, and they support arm devices till 256 cpus..
I believe this work have been ported to FreeBSD as well..

http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/aarch64/

[uid313]

Oh this SWC compositor maybe is not as cool as GNOME and KWin.
I never heard of SWC before either, so it doesn't seem popular, maybe its not so good.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD Has Some Wayland SUpport But X11 Is Far More Mature

Following the news yesterday of NetBSD changing its default X11 window manager after two decades with TWM to now using CTWM by default, some wondered why they don't jump on the Wayland bandwagon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-Wayland-2020