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Can somebody explain why everyone is trying to ditch xorg? I’ve never had an issue with xorg, but I’m always hearing about major issues with Wayland.

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Noob here, also curious to this…

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Better multimonitor support, VRR, and HDR are some of the promises I think. I want all of these things but not enough to switch away from Linux Mint. I’ll be happy when Wayland makes its way in over the next couple of years.

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Because it is mess or a program. If nothing else Wayland has much better security. However, X tends to be less performant and harder on power usage. It also has poor support for input devices such as touch screens and is unreliable with multiple different monitors.

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Xorg(and the x server protocol) is very old and like most long lived software has quite a few warts and quirks.

Wayland has been “the future” for like 10 years (though it’s quite a bit older). It’s only now starting to reach a critical mass where things are starting to change so it might feel a bit of a mess at the moment.

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Wayland has much more up-to-date graphics technologies behind it to put it simply.

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I use Arch btw


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