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by firebaze 1077 days ago
You're right and I don't debate any of your points. And no it doesn't shock me that big distros use Wayland already.

On the other hand, my points still stand I think. And regarding esoteric and hacky software: I don't think accessibility as a base functionality should require hacky and esoteric stuff, it should be a first class citizen in a 2023 window manager (?).

And I also want to remind how Linux (and, ironically, Microsoft) grew so strong: they are really, really careful with deprecating old stuff. As hacky that stuff may be. Up for debate if this is net good, sure.

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> it should be a first class citizen in a 2023 window manager

It should be, but linux is built by hobbyists in their free time — it is hard enough to get to a working state, let alone adding accessibility, even if it is the first on the list.