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This is troublesome, and it feels like "progress" for the sake of "progress" rather than actual improvements. The X Window System is time-tested technology, while Wayland, from what I've seen and read, is not.

This isn't a good thing to me, especially considering NVIDIA hardware doesn't seem to be well supported. Someone come along and correct me, please.

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X11 is a pile of hacks. Have you ever tried to read the source code? When the X11 devs design a new system and stop maintaining X11, it's likely that X11 is not in a good shape.

>This isn't a good thing to me, especially considering NVIDIA hardware doesn't seem to be well supported. Someone come along and correct me, please.

It's the other way around: NVIDIA doesn't support GBM, the standard for buffer allocation.

How about cleaning up the mess.

The most "mess" is coming from old graphics hardware drivers, a task that is now managed by the kernel.

Besides, the "mess" performs better than Wayland in many use cases thanks to DRI3.

Thanks for downvoting, everybody.

You aren't supposed to downvote because you disagree, you're supposed to downvote because I'm not contributing to the discussion.

This place is an echo chamber that favors cliques and follows its own arbitrary rules while being hostile to others. lobste.rs is so much better.

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