Comment by zamalek

Comment by zamalek 5 days ago

> On Wayland, you in theory have to do a late more...

This is vaguely a double-edged sword. Yes, more code duplication across disparate projects - but that also allows people who _really care_ (such as the xfce team) to roll up their sleeves and do more. Any WM will only ever be as good as the X11 baseline, Wayland servers have the opportunity to compete on this front.

Although I'm probably permanently stuck with the Niri workflow, I am looking forward to seeing what the xfce developers come up with.

account42 4 days ago

By the time we get to that utopia someone will declare Wayland obsolete and we'll all be arguing over how Nextfad is the best/worst thing ever.

And technically, nothing has been stopping the xfce devs or anyone from making their own X11 server / X.org fork if the window manager interface was too limiting.

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zamalek 3 days ago

I have no doubt about it, but for my use-cases Wayland definitely is a step up. It's definitely a first-world-problem, but somehow typing feels more enjoyable at low latency - back when I still had a backup X11 session, I could instantly tell that I had left it on: the mouse cursor, input, everything felt like soup.

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