Originally posted by OroWith2Os
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The problem is that wayland has critical missing features that the devs have refused to implement for over a decade, and horrible design decision they refuse to go back on.
If your nr. 1 priority is security it's fine
If you're a consumer, a general purpose end user or if you're a gamer, wayland is borked by design, it's a piece of hot garbage. Does the steam deck even use wayland? I'm fairly certain it doesn't use it, it can't use it, because wayland has vsync forced on and in some games you do not want vsync to be on.
When wayland first came they said wayland by design was tear free, and this would be awesome... except it wasn't, they just forced vsync on universally, you could already do that on X, you could already have tear free X, it was nothing new.
You can't stream your monitor on wayland which is critical for many users.
There's no proper software for creating macros (there's some but it's often convoluted, barely known and has dropped or painfully slow development. Not being able to record keypresses from other processes is pretty good security wise, not being able to send them is an awful end user design.
You know what I'm not really properly qualified I suppose to argue or explain most of this stuff, but someone is...
Here read up, read up about all the ways in which Wayland is completely fucked, mostly thanks to the wayland devs who refuse to fix it.
Hell... I wonder if they even do work on it more than 5 minutes per week at the rate of their devleopment with bugs left unresolved for decades at a time, the thing is fucking vaporware. If they spent half as much time developing it as they have spent trying to convince everyone they need it, then yeah it'd probably be the 'x12' we need, but it's not, it's basically just fit for kiosks and smartphones and servers, nothing else. For the desktop it is bloody awful and nobody should really be using it.
It's a good idea to fix a real problem, but with such horrible execution that it creates a lot of bigger problems than the problem it originally tried to solve.
Yes, X has design issues that wayland doesn't, problem is, wayland just introduces bigger design issues that make it a non-viable replacement for X.
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