[linguae]

1. The article was written in 2014.

2. While it appears that Wayland is poised to replace X11 on Linux desktops given the amount of backing Wayland has compared to X11, it is not clear whether Wayland will replace X11 in the BSD ecosystem. According to the FreeBSD Wiki, Wayland is not ready to be a daily driver (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland), though work has been done getting Wayland compositors and other software to work on FreeBSD. I use X11 on my FreeBSD desktop. I'm unfamiliar with the current status of Wayland on NetBSD and OpenBSD. I expect X11 to live on for quite some time in the BSD world and among more conservative Linux users, similar to the situation regarding systemd in the Linux community, which was adopted by mainstream distributions and users but faced (and still faces) opposition from some users.

[mrweasel]

Someone has started work on OpenBSD Wayland: https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2021-09-26-openbsd-wayland-...

I doubt it's something that will be ready for 7.1 next spring, but it's nice to see that it's actually working.

[pimeys]

I've been using Wayland and Sway with FreeBSD 13 quite successfully. Everything worked quite well, except some indicators in Waybar that were using some Linux specific things to get values for memory usage etc...

[mcguire]

3. Wayland has been "starting to take off" for longer than many of the readers here have been alive.