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Wayland vs X11 be like (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Hahaha that damn spacebar heating in KDE 4.2 was really lit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.