Advantages of Wayland

That doesn’t answer my question, which was directed specifically at @Brtza

But since you’re chatty and he isn’t, let me ask you, apart from that very particular touchscreen device, do you use Wayland on other devices?

(Splitting this off since this isn’t really related to the original question)

Apart from the fact that 3/4 of my devices come with a touchscreen (which makes its proper operation essential to me; for my usecase, a touchscreen is not at all an edgecase), I recall that I had several issues when it comes to hdpi support under X, especially when connecting my laptop(s) to an external non-hdpi monitor. This may have been caused by my own incompetence back then, but was one of the driving factors for me to try Wayland. Since I didn’t have any issues there, I haven’t looked back so there may have been a solution I didn’t see. (Also, I recall that multi monitor + hotplug didn’t really work for me, but that also didn’t work properly on wayland until very recently)

My desktop ran X for quite a while still (there wasn’t any real reason to switch), but with KDE 6 on the horizon I recently switched to wayland there as well. So far I didn’t really notice any differences or issues (even with my NVIDIA GPU from 2014), but that could be just due to my workflow.

In the end I personally don’t really care if my system runs X or wayland, as long as my devices function properly. I guess it comes down to what you’re used to and for me that’s wayland.

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All by accident, I ran into this last night… :wink:

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What i REALLY don’t like is Red Hat (IBM) forcing their influence on whole Linux ecosystem waaaaaaay too deep.

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Quoting thefrog:

Also I have a feeling that Richard Stallman would slap this guy if they meet each other (joke, kinda, rms is highly politically charged).

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