The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant

https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/143136

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant - NDLUG

In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software [https://orowith2os.gitlab.io/posts/wayland-breaks-your-bad-software/] > I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don’t believe that they’re a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland. > With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland’s technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don’t want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don’t want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn’t think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

I’ve not even heard of what the technical merits are. It seems to just break shit like systemd.

Eventually I’ll be dragged across by the distro, but until then I do not care.

Same. I’m sure its great, but I’m not motivated to spend my time and energy on it. I remember when PulseAudio first came out, it had growing pains too. I jumped on board early because it solved problems I needed to solve. I was a younger nerd back then, and I don’t have the patience for the cutting edge anymore.

I hear it does indeed work with Nvidia now, so I guess I’ll give it another shot next time I distro-hop.

As someone who constantly checks in on the Nvidia + Wayland combination every time there is a Nvidia driver update, it “works” but only by the loosest definition unfortunately.
Yea, I have a 2080 and try to run a Wayland KDE session every now and then, but so far every time the desktop has ended up frozen after a couple minutes. Reboot back into X it is…