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by awill 1135 days ago
Good. Wayland is ready. Any GPU/DE that hasn't fully supported Wayland should be abandoned at this point.
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People should be doing whatever works well for them and makes them productive and happy. If that's Wayland then that's Wayland. If that's Xorg then that's Xorg.

People going around the internet telling other people what they should be doing with their spare time and private computer should mind their own business.

There’s more than just KDE and Gnome out there, you know.

There’s dozens of WMs that have no Wayland equivalent, and at this point seems like they never will. I use Xmonad at work. I doubt we’ll ever see a Wayland port of StumpWM.

And before anyone suggests Sway, its multihead support is so laughably bad compared to Xmonad that it makes you wonder if anyone ever tried to use it.
That’s interesting, i3 wm has perfectly decent multihead support, and usually Sway matches it at least.
XFCE doesn't even fully support Wayland...
regarding stumpwm: https://github.com/stumpwm/mahogany

also another cool project: https://sr.ht/~shunter/wayflan/

It seems like they’re in the process of rewriting it into C? That seems like it would defeat what I found to be the most compelling aspect of Stump, but I’ll likely try it out to see for myself.
Rewriting the backend into C. Writing C in 2023 is a weird choice for sure, but the clisp frontend code seems like it's going to be staying.
> Any GPU/DE that hasn't fully supported Wayland should be abandoned at this point.

Sure thing. I'll just send you the bill for the new hardware, shall I?