Mastodawn

All talk about #Wayland on #Linux never fails to be both exciting (sometimes at least when it's not about laptop-exclusive improvements), and complicated. It's the future, that's for sure, but while I do understand why it's not the case - I do wish it's a more clear cut, stable upgrade as it was moving to #Pipewire from #Pulseaudio. Pipewire is better, more reliable, and secure over Pulseaudio in almost every way - and its adoption was really fast and smooth because it's an easy, stable drop-in replacement that has helped improve the experience surrounding audio on Linux for everyone. Wayland should be better than #X11/#Xorg, but at the moment, that's not fully the case. Things breaking in Wayland is too common and they're often "fixed"/non-issue on X11, so people/developers/vendors are reluctant to make the move. As a result, the upgrade/switch to Wayland is very much a chicken-and-egg situation where users are waiting for it to be better and more stable before making the jump, but developers/vendors too aren't taking the inevitable move to Wayland as seriously as they should since users are mostly still on X11. I wish I could jump to 5 years from now and see a future where Wayland has completely replaced X11 without any critical/annoying issues, but I'm not too sure about that. We all might need to live through a (hopefully not too long) period of bugginess on Linux to eventually get back to its stable state that it is today, just so we could leave behind the aging corpse that is X11.