On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
Tim via users writes:
Sam Varshavchik:
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.
I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it?
I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems.
Read https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-pages-227-238.pdf
This paper describes the problems Wayland is trying to solve.
The stated problems with X, that were the purported drivers for Wayland -- I just can't find those problems, myself.
Other people can. Just because X works for you doesn't mean Wayland doesn't make linux suitable for use cases where X fails.
But it's painfully obvious that every effort is being made to ditch X in favor of the Next Greatest Thing. It's a path well trodden by Gnome 3 and systemd. I'm just a realist here, and I see the handwriting on the wall.
Real money is being spent to develop Wayland because the need for better linux graphics justifies the effort.
The only thing that will keep X in business is a popular widget set or a desktop that does not get ported to Wayland. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that xfce will be enough to keep X around. Maybe not in Fedora, but in other distributions.
Most likely scenario is a new lightweight DE using Wayland, maybe stealing code from xfce or maybe completely written from scratch.