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Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6 • The Register(www.theregister.com)

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TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are begging beginning to work on Wayland support.

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PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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At least the Mint devs are being realistic on the time span needed for Wayland to have a chance at working for everyone, unlike Fedora, KDE, and Gnome that are jumping the gun.

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merthyr1831@lemmy.worldOP
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Cinnamon and XFCE are outliers in that they try to be super stable, “complete” desktops, compared to GNOME and KDE that try to be bleeding edge and packed with new and changing features.

Benefits to both, but I can respect why Cinnamon and XFCE have been slow to adopt Wayland (to a fault, many would argue)

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IverCoder@lemm.ee
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If nobody does that, nobody will be using Wayland to report issues.

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Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Wayland works pretty well, especially on GNOME. It’s good they did the jump, X11 poses unacceptable security risks for the current time.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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Jumping the gun? It’s been working mostly without issue for most people for years now.

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Magickmaster@feddit.de
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just this month I had multiple wayland issues forcing me to switch to an x11 session

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Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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Since we’re going with anecdotal evidence, I’ve been using Wayland daily for over a year and haven’t had any issues related to it

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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Ok

Personally X11 is unusably buggy and janky. Just a clearly inferior experience.

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Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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If you ignore all the things where it doesn’t.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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Could say the same about X. To me X seems pretty broken and unstable.

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