Yes, I made it using a laptop’s trackpad, how could you tell?

[Image description: Panel 1: Young man confidently walking, his vest bears the Wayland logo. Behind him is a grunt with the Gnome logo on his face holding a katana. The young man says: “It’s high time you retire, old man!” Panel 2: An old man with a long beard and the Xorg logo on his chest is sitting on a throne and petting a rat, the XFCE mascot. He says: “It’s still a hundred years too early for you to defeat me!” ]

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    No one thinks it’ll succeed? Obviously you and I exist in very different parts of the linux sphere, cause I’m pretty sure X11 is all but dead as a project and its kinda just a question of how long it takes for Wayland to be feature complete enough to reach a critical mass of adoption. And its kinda feeling like we’re currently on the cusp of being there with the major DEs moving towards discontinuing X11 support 😅

    • nxdefiant@startrek.website
      13·
      9 months ago

      X is 36 years old. Wayland is 15. Wayland was not the first attempt at unseating that throne and for the sake of all our sanity, I hope it’s the last. I don’t want Wayland to win because it’s better, I want Wayland to win because I’m tired of trying to use it and having to go back to X because it broke something.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 months ago

      This software has been in development for a long time and still doesn’t work for my niche usecase and this therefore UNUSABLE and DOOMED TO FAIL

      • Actual Linux users, completely oblivious to the irony of that sentence
      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
        3·
        9 months ago

        That’s a weird take. You have a software that you use and suits your needs. It’s showing its age, but still tricks along. Then there’s this other software that’s gaining spotlight, but it does not suit all your needs. You point out the regression. Some rando makes fun of your valid point.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          9 months ago

          I agree with what you’re saying, but you’re shifting the goalpost.

          Everyone is cheering Wayland on, no one believes it’ll succeed

          That parent comment (and other comments like it in these threads) are what I take issue with. You can make the exact same argument why people should stick with Windows and not bother with Linux.

          • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
            2·
            9 months ago

            But… You didn’t take issue with that. You ridicularized a completely different statement, one that was valid even. You pulled a reverse strawman on yourself. If you’d made a counterpoint to original post, I’d have agreed with you.