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It's ready for me in that it works better than X11 on my hardware. No it's not flawless like MacOS and to some extent Windows, but it's certainly an improvement over what we had.

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Works flawlessly if you've never edited a Xorg config file… if you did, there is no way to keep using the same configuration

Not ever having to touch Xorg config files to get things working is pretty big advantage to me at least.

So let me know how do you write 5 languages properly…

I write 5 languages properly.

Eu escrevo 5 línguas adequadamente.

J'écris cinq langues bien.

Escribo 5 idiomas correctamente.

Scrivo correttamente 5 lingue.

Bravo, e come fai con Øåä e questo genere di lettere?

I don't understand what you're asking or why it's relevant to what I said. Did you mean to reply to someone else, or did you think that I was the same commenter as someone else?

Are you talking about changing keymaps or just different keymaps?

The last you setup in your DE and the first you use xkb as before. (Or at least that’s how I did it before)

I am not trying to change layout, no.

I’ve used Linux for over 10 years and I don’t even know what an xorg config file is. I suspect most users don’t. I wouldn’t expect my desktop environment to require any config.

That stands to reason - the last time I had to edit xorg configs was probably over 15yrs ago getting multi monitor working before xrandr. Since 2005ish, xorg seemed to be able to happily autoconfigure itself.

I didn't mean /etc stuff, I mean more like Xmodmap, .XCompose… the sort of things americans don't use and are completely unaware of.

But I personally speak 5 languages (with very different levels) and writing gets a bit complicated.

Try to define custom XComposeKey sequences, so that you can write math symbols or greek letters and you will find out immediately.

For example I can write ∀ x ∈ ℕ: x > 1 → x² > 1, but not in wayland.

I mean, of course that's the case? xorg.conf* applies to X (the process) which isn't running any longer. Also, most people haven't need d a xorg config in a long while, except for unique cases.

I would hesitate to call MacOS flawless. When I had to use it (m1 pro), it had more issues than Fedora with gnome (which has virtually no issues on the 4 systems I have running it). MacOS wouldn't work with thunderbolt dock, wouldn't work with some monitors / resolutions, requires a paid app to get middle click on touch pad (which is beyond laughable, but goes to show Apple users will pay for anything). The settings GUIs have more legacy than Windows. The updates are terrible... it will uninstall dev tools after an update, and looking at the size of them it's like it downloads and reinstalls the entire OS each time.

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