Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it’s not easy as “Wayland support? Yes” (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it’s not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it will use X11.

When Wayland is detected, it is the preferred system, otherwise X11 will be used

Also XWayland has many limitations as X11 does.

  • Psyhackological@lemmy.mlOP
    72·
    3 months ago

    Yeah I agree. Maybe some day X11 will be seen as something legacy that needs to be deprecated. But not now…

    • gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      3 months ago

      Plasma deprecated their X11 session in v6 pending removal in the future, and Redhat has already dropped it in Fedora & will do for EL in the next release.

      • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Plasma didn’t deprecate X11. Though some developers hinted that the Xorg session will probably be dropped before Plasma 7 and before Qt drops X11. But nothing concrete.

        • gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          8·
          3 months ago

          Oh indeed not deprecated, my bad. Wayland is default and “preferred” (how they’re deciding what to prefer I can’t imagine), and X11 is confirmed to be removed in a future release.

    • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
      21·
      3 months ago

      X11 has exactly one developer who’s a vaccine denying turbocunt German, everyone else has dropped it and it’s codebase is practically unknown territory with security risks.

      Look man, it’s dead already