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Wayland vs. X – Overview (wayland.freedesktop.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

i have no horse in the race, but what are people pushing as the 'cons' to wayland?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

People hate change?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Only thing I can remember right now reading about is that is is "not finished" and "not production ready".

I mean there is some truth in that because when I tried switching to it some months ago, it crashed in the first 5 minutes of using it. Haven't triey it since. Others report using it all the time without any issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not yet working well with NVIDIA proprietary drivers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Basically there are a bunch of restrictions baked into Wayland that are there for security reasons. For example, the protocol doesn't have a way to record keystrokes. Which is reasonable since apps really shouldn't be able to do that whenever they want. But some apps really need that, and they had no way to. Recent extensions fixed most of these issues but it has been a long road.