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Wayland is just a protocol and much more lightweight than X11.

I am guessing that people complaining about Wayland do not care that technically it is just a specification that is "much better" or "more lightweight" than X11. What they do care about is that Wayland is being forced on them before it works on the same hardware where X11 works correctly and X11 is being removed which leaves them without working system. If you go by what is lightweight than just drop all GUI since text console is the lightest of all user interfaces.

This was just in response to Wayland being 'bloat' which is factually wrong.

Also, X11 did not disappear over night so I don't get all that complaining. I'd wager X11 will remain a viable display server for several years. The only distro discussing removal of X11 seems to be Fedora at the moment, and they where always on the bleeding edge so no surprises there.

X11 is also just a protocol. (Though I agree that Wayland is a smaller protocol)

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