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View Poll Results: When will you switch to Wayland in Slackware?
Has anyone tried building Wayland for Slackware? I'd love to try it, but setting it up seems like a lot of work. If you tried replacing X with Wayland, I'd love to hear about your mileage
I have a feeling that this is a great idea, and if it is implemented well, it's going to make Unix/Linux far more stable and better performing than it already is. No point in being a Luddite just because you can.
Whell, from what I have understood and I may be wrong there will be some kind of emulation that will extend the support to those programs that doesn't natively support Wayland but only X
Some of my friends are very, *very* enthusiastic about Wayland, and it sounds like the problems Wayland solves (mostly having to do with minor defects in high-performance video playback) are important to them.
They're not important to me. X11 works great for everything I need it to do, and giving up X11's network transparency for the RDP-like capability Wayland may or may not implement someday is not progress.
That having been said, aside from my baseline mistrust of any new code (new code is buggy code!) and reluctance to lose network transparency, I don't have anything *against* Wayland. If a time comes when it is robust, works well with fvwm, and allows me to use firefox, xfig, etc from a different computer without RDP-like loss of performance, I'll use it just as readily as X11.
To me, "Wayland" means "heroin-addicted singer of Stone Temple Pilots." That's "Weiland," really, but Wayland needs to be used by something that I use before it has more of a connotation than that. I'll wait for Pat to present it to me, and I'm in no hurry whatsoever. Either this solution or a pure X11 solution will find a way to stink. Heck, by the time it's in wide deployment, Wayland probably won't work on my video card for lack of 4D time-travel compositing.
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Some of my friends are very, *very* enthusiastic about Wayland, and it sounds like the problems Wayland solves (mostly having to do with minor defects in high-performance video playback) are important to them.
They're not important to me. X11 works great for everything I need it to do, and giving up X11's network transparency for the RDP-like capability Wayland may or may not implement someday is not progress.
That having been said, aside from my baseline mistrust of any new code (new code is buggy code!) and reluctance to lose network transparency, I don't have anything *against* Wayland. If a time comes when it is robust, works well with fvwm, and allows me to use firefox, xfig, etc from a different computer without RDP-like loss of performance, I'll use it just as readily as X11.
this aint the most improving thing in wayland.
The big difference between wayland and X is the rendering of the GPU.
where X needs seperate software, like Mutter for gnome, probably something for KDE aswell.
Wayland is directly doing this, meaning more smoother rendering.
This is also the reason why KDE, Enlightment, MATE, gnome are starting to port to wayland.
Well, maybe that last one is a bit over the top. I just don't see the supposed improvements from the hype. You are still going to need some sort of GPU hardware driver for optimal performance. You will still need all sorts of added software. You will still need X. Given the lots of Wayland devs are also X.org devs, I suspect any Wayland improvements will get ported to X.
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