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I'm not sure why this person feels confident enough to talk about wayland and diagnose it as 'flawed at the core' but go off king at least we will get a Brodie Robertson video out of it.

Its funny that every single thing listed is incorrect and corrected by the comments, do you think OP will reflect on this and adjust the confidence of his opinion?

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I'm pretty sure there's going to be a bunch of comments here taking the article seriously just so the usual people can rant over Wayland more.

This is my first time learning about this, so it's not like I hate Wayland and want confirmation on it. But the comments did not refute his main claims. It's a debate on whether the restrictions are a good trade off, but it seems to me that what he said is factual mostly.

If the debate is on the trade offs then his entire argument collapses when he fails to highlight a single legitimate trade off. His examples were absolutely refuted.

I dont know how so many people read that thread and agreed with the OP. When I read through his post I thought that this person cannot even accurately identify what is a wayland issue and what is an application issue. He is looking at an application called xkill and getting mad that it doesnt work outside of x. Its like me getting mad that windows disk cleaner doesnt run on linux and blaming linux for it.

they are mad because wayland is designed in such a way that these tools cannot be written anymore

Thats not true though. You can write these applications the only difference is they might need an extra permission granted from the user.

Where exactly are the corrections?

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