On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Tim via users writes:
>
>> Tim:
>> >> I find this just crazy.  Why should just the desktop interface
>> >> require a beefy graphics card?  I use Mate because of that
>> >> silliness.
>>
>> Samuel Sieb:
>> > It doesn't need to be beefy.  Pretty much any video card made in the
>> > last 10 years should work.  Since the capability is there, why not
>> > use it to make the desktop work better?
>>
>> Yeah, right.  Slowly opening menus, slowly spinning desktop cubes,
>> hover and wait before continuing, splash screens and other animations
>> that delay me doing something "make it work better"?
>
> I agree. Having said that: if Gnome wants to target the power user,
> with the latest high-end video hardware, the kind who follows the
> latest UI trends, then I see nothing wrong with that, with Gnome
> becoming a boutique, specialty UI that targets a specific userbase.
>
> Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively
> Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in
> order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't happen
> anytime soon, but it will happen.

Much of Fedora is user developed.  So this need not be the case.  It is
clear from what I read over in Xfce-land that better tools are needed.
Probably to even better migrate Gnome and KDE to Wayland.

This is a bigger change than systemd and firewalld.  But we made those. 
We will be on Wayland across the board, it seems, in 5 years or less.