Post #4771175 · Elektrine

@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works

2026-09-19 23:36 UTC

All in all the hate towards wayland just does more harm than good and people limited on complaining and hating maybe should consider ways of actually improving it. This is bullshit. I have no duty to be loyal to any project. Wayland in particular has been so mismanaged it’s still fighting for dominance after decades and still can’t reproduce the functionality we had in the '90s. All that effort could have been put into refactoring and updating X11 instead.

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@anyhow2503@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 13:45

No. The people who thanklessly maintained X for years have made their choice. If you want to take up that slack, go ahead. The codebase sucks and X has many missing features, some of which Wayland supports or at least can feasibly implement at some point before the heat death of the universe. Every single person that says: “if we put all that effort into X instead we would be better off” has no idea what they are talking about and has clearly never spoken to a developer who actually worked on X. can’t reproduce the functionality we had in the '90s Good. Fuck the ancient shit that has been collected over the years. There are still missing features that Wayland compositors need at some point and there are things that used to be easier with X, but if you can’t actually name anything then I’ll just assume you’re being contrarian.

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