Wayland by Default in 2026.1 EAP (Jetbrains)

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14 points·politelemon··4 comments

> The splash screen on IDE startup will not appear as it cannot be reliably centered on the screen.

Wayland sure is an interesting beast to work with, it seems

That's not great, although at least a splash screen is purely cosmetic. More disappointing is that, even in 2026, the move to Wayland still comes with issues like this:

> Some popups, such as Search Everywhere and Recent Locations, may not be moved outside of the main frame.

and

> Some windows and dialogs, e.g. Project Structure and Alerts, may not be centered on the screen or keep their previous location. This is due to the window manager having total control over windows’ locations in Wayland, which it is not always possible to override on the application side.

Which in the end one has to make peace that the Year of Linux Desktop is better as a UNIX like headless system running on Apple Virtualization, or WSL VMs.

On one side we have X not getting updates, as key devs moved into Wayland, on the other side we have Wayland, which is reaching Hurd levels of development time, with issues like these, being in development since 2008(!).

Then we have the whole issues with audio stacks, reversed enginered 3D drivers although all GPU vendors have their own Linux distros for AI researchers, video hardware decoding still hit and miss,....

Well, Linux is innovating, and innovating and innovating and ... looks more and more like being run by CADTs with no clear goals. The only goal seems to be to use as many shared libraries as possible, making even Windows 95 with its DLL hell, look pale in comparison.

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