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by ch_123 1689 days ago
Here is one list of problems with X11 which Wayland solves. One of the author is someone who has done a lot of work on Xorg, so they know what they are talking about: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_waylan...
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Thank you! No idea why your comment is so low. Most educational one here.

I enjoyed reading that link -- a fact oriented list, directly answering my question, rather than an assumption that I want eye candy or resampled resolutions. Fixing the input subsystem alone feels like a compelling reason to use Wayland. It's also interesting to me that the list doesn't mention DPI, which seems to be of great concern here. :>

Having read that, I'm much less terrified, though it does mean I probably will have to take the time to write a window manager for Wayland. Thanks!

This link shows what is the problem with SW development, not with X . The same thing is done also in QT or GTK. Why a program written for QT4 cannot compile in QT5 ? Why every library release must be incompatible with the predecessor ? I was able to compile and run X10 programs in X11. Why do i need to have on my linux system more than one version of a library ? Will Wayland fix that, because from this article I see that it is more or less in the same mess of incompatible libraries ?