• ninboy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s starting to look like 2024 will be the year of Wayland. /s

    All jokes aside, it’s good to finally see more adoption from the different upstream projects.

    Also, why did I have such a hard time reading this article? I’m not sure if the text was user or machine generated.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      You can remove the /s.

      With GNOME and KDE going Wayland only, it is all but over for X. Qt, GTK, and Electron already work on Wayland so most apps are ready. Cinnamon, XFCE, Enlightenment, and MATE all have Wayland plans now. There are a few compositor libraries that other window managers and desktop environments can leverage.

      NVIDIA is slowly getting their act together. Many of the legitimate complainants are being addressed. There are desirable features starting to appear that are Wayland only. Even non-Linux systems are adding Wayland support.

      It is hard to believe after so many years but I think that, by Christmas 2024, most Linux users will have stopped using X and maybe even stopped talking about it.