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Feel free to continue using X11 of course, no one's forcing anybody to switch. That said:

> Does upstream Wayland work on any platform except for Linux?

Yes, FreeBSD. Patches welcome to make it work on other BSDs.

> Does this display server have any form of colour management for, you know, the stuff it's displaying?

No more than X11 right now, ie. none. But it's in the works.

I was under the impression Wayland on FreeBSD required a lot of patching on their end, but this has been merged upstream? If so that's pretty good news.

Also good news re colour management. The last I heard about this was Drew DeVault (and I'm paraphrasing) calling it "precious horseshit".

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.ht...

There is work on HDR colors, but I haven’t followed up on it.

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