That isn’t waylands fault, it’s the closed source third parties
This is very hard to explain to your users, because there's nothing they can do.
So yes, it really doesn't matter too much why if the software doesn't work. I don't mind X until Wayland is ready for all.
As long as enough consumers don't actively demand decent Linux (or BSD, whatever) support, it will never come. I'd suggest voting with your wallets, but with the laptop market being the steaming pile of shit that it is, that's virtually impossible.
The year of the Linux desktop...just like fusion power, is always just around the corner.
I tried to vote with my wallet, but this is what Linux is like /shrug
Now I use only Intel because... well, it works. But I don't bother with 3D gaming, of course.
My point is that you can blame the manufacturers because their support is broken, but you can't blame the users because they will use something else (I know I did: XFCE works great).
EDIT: Gnome shell was initially released in 2011. This may or may not have changed, for better or worse. I moved on.
I agree, you can't blame users for it, but you can totally tell them to try to switch. DE and Wayland compositor developers can't spend resources cleaning up the mess that Nvidia created by refusing to upstream their driver and preventing Nouveau from working properly as well.
Meanwhile, telling users who to blame does nothing for them. They don’t care. To them, the best entity to blame is the distribution, that’s pretty much their job.
But while blame doesn’t fix problems, neither does doing nothing. What I’m suggesting is, the move to Wayland needs to be pushed harder if anything is going to be fixed. Nvidia can’t hold it back, that’s not sustainable.
But again, users can’t do that. Distributions can do that. Distributions can tell people, sorry, we can’t support Nvidia, contact Nvidia, they already promised to work towards this, and what they produced is incomplete. If they continue to support X11, there's no urgency to fixing the issues with Wayland.
This isn’t really about blame though, it’s about responsibility. Somebody has to fix the problem. Open source projects like Nouveau can help, but Nvidia has blocked progress by requiring signed blobs and continually not providing access to important information (like technical bits for reclocking.) I think that is pretty much reason enough to suggest Nvidia should be shouldering the pressure and responsibility to deliver a good Linux experience, and we should absolutely hold them to it, until or if they stop blocking open source efforts on purpose.
Establishing blame would tell you who’s fault it is that something is broken. Answer is nearly useless imo. Only thing that matters is how do we fix it and possibly what can be done to prevent it from happening again. Saying Nvidia should fix it is different from worrying about who is to blame; if you frame it that way, they could fire back about how kernel licensing restrictions make their life harder, and nobody cares about that issue either.
I think there is value in telling users to vent their frustration in a productive direction; namely at Nvidia who has the power to change the situation, rather than at Wayland developers who are likely just as frustrated. I think we both generally agree on that.
Apple dropped support for Nvidia graphics. Linux will be next at this rate.
Still, I want to shy away from blame. Blame is complicated, can be deflected, and often leads to hatred. I prefer to say, Nvidia is responsible, nobody else can fix this.
In what regards Linux, the only customers that matter to NVidia are CUDA users (don't care about their UI on cloud instances) and Hollywood studios (have their own in-house distributions).