• HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As a Linux newcomer the Wayland/X11 thing has been the most confusing thing I’ve witnessed.

    Surely the average person will just use what works best on their system at that time? I don’t get people wishing to throw Wayland in the trash or the people who take issue with people still using X11.

    Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

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      1 year ago

      It’s an age old Linux tradition. We argue about window managers, init systems, sound systems, and anything else we can. Often it’s because people have built a hacked together system based on what used to work for them. Relevant XKCD

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        And it’s fine when it’s about a roughly equal choice. But Wayland is vastly superior in support and X11 vastly superior in functionality, so I don’t get this argument.

        If I could find a compositor for Wayland (and a simple terminal emulator like urxvt, no opengl for acceleration please) as easy and quick to set up as cwm for X11 (with something like dzen2) or fvwm - the issue wouldn’t exist for me personally.

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      Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

      When we don’t have Windows or Mac users to feel superior against, we will invent issues amongst ourselves.

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      Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

      You don’t seem confused at all. You summed it up nicely.

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        And, here me out here: this is a good thing. Nay, a beautiful thing. There are no better things to do because these people care and have a voice. We argue about things for years and make slow progress as people agree or capitulate, and there will always be a fork to avoid those changes people care to enough. No one can just buy the Linux ecosystem and make unpopular changes without broad support. I’m pretty sure a negligible number of people have genuine hatred or prejudice for those using a technology they don’t like. The arguing of Linux and Open Source is a reflection of the most successful form of worldwide democracy ever implemented by mankind.

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      i started using linux 3 years ago because i literally didn’t have nothing better todo ‘-’

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      1 year ago

      Welcome to the Linux community!

      Seriously, though. Just use what you want (as long as it’s working and supported, of course). Don’t let anyone here pressure you.

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        Ubuntu LTS and 23.x are both Xorg. Latest has Wayland. If 24.04 is to be LTS though, I don’t think they’d release it with Wayland as default. I’d think they’d switch to Wayland on 24.10 so there’s 3 more releases to get good before the next LTS build.