[mdlug] Who Uses Wayland?

[Michael Corral]

Le 2023-07-17, Monsieur Raymond Ingles a écrit:
> I'm still using X.org, for one reason: I like XFCE, and that's not
> Wayland-ready yet.

Same here, except I'm running Window Maker, which I doubt will ever be 
rewritten for Wayland.

> I'll switch to Wayland when feasible; X definitely has issues. For example,
> I like having multiple monitors - but X.org can't handle variable refresh
> rates well on more than one monitor. In fact, if you have a VRR monitor and
> a fixed-rate one, your VRR monitor will only run as a fixed-rate monitor.
> Plus, fractional scaling is hacked into X.org, and doesn't work all that
> great (especially with multiple monitors).

Better fractional scaling support and multi-monitor support seem like the 
biggest selling points for Wayland. It makes me wonder: why not just work 
on adding that to X.org instead of coming up with a completely new 
protocol that breaks a ton of established functionality that UNIX/Linux 
users have come to expect? As it is, I think Wayland and X.org will 
continue to co-exist for a long time.

Michael