Yeah this thread is full of people expecting the new thing to immediately surpass the old, ignoring the decades of development and refinement that went into the old solution.
I get that, I really do, but don’t try and push a product that isn’t usable for everyone to everyone. Sure, whoever wants to use it, they can, report bugs, open PRs, whatever, but don’t push this thing like it’s the second comming to everyone out there. One, not everyone needs the features it has, X11 works fine for most people. Two, it’s not backwards compatible, meaning they’d have to abandon a lot of software that just doesn’t work with it (waypipe doesn’t work all the time and with every piece of software there is).
The transition is rushed, everyone feels that. Why? Because a lot of new features that new hardware had couldn’t be implemented in X11. And let’s be honest, this rushing to switch to Wayland is mostly because of gamers. Regarding a lot of things Linux related, they are the de facto standard that dictates whether somethings get’s changed or upgraded. I’m sorry, but not everyone is a gamer. Most people just need a working PC to do whatever. If you can’t be backwards compatible completely with the old UIs, I’m sorry, but that’s a deal breaker for me and I believe most regular users.
Xwayland is a thing, and nobody stops you from installing Xorg if you wanted. They’re just dropping official support so they can focus that energy to Wayland instead.
Also not all Xorg features should be ported.
I have found Wayland will work for 99% of users who aren’t gamers, all the major programs work well, ironically Wayland has been worse for gaming so far for me on the underpowered laptop, but that’s due to it having to run also through xwayland, which will be a problem solved by Valve pretty soon as they don’t have to worry about Xorg anymore and can make proton work better for Wayland.
Tried Xwayland… jump through hoops to get something meant to be run on Wayland on X11… sorry, not for me. And it didn’t work in the end BTW, have no idea why.
Though, I have to admit, this was over a year ago.
Still, my stand point is, this is not a finished product no matter how you look at it. If you don’t have at least 90% of the stuff that are supposed to work, working, without major problems, then yes, but this is more like 50/50. Some things work, some don’t, we really have no idea what does and doesn’t… except Wayland and Nvidia of course, we know that doesn’t work.
