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by zenoprax 124 days ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, Wayland is available on FreeBSD.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland
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jmclnx 123 days ago
Not all *BSDs is FreeBSD :)

A NetBSD posted a blog stating NetBSD is having issues porting Wayland due to Linux specific items. OpenBSD stated something similar.

Both articles indicated it will be a very long time, if ever, to get Wayland fully working on their systems. I did see this presentation that describes some issues as of 2025.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/talks/BSDCan2025-jeff_frasca-way...

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giancarlostoro 124 days ago
Some people hate wayland.
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pjmlp 123 days ago
Those people can contribute to Xorg server further development.
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bee_rider 123 days ago
The thing that kicked off this thread was hope that vim will continue to support X11. No need for continued X development really.
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pjmlp 123 days ago
On the contrary, because you will want to have those drivers when the time comes to reinstall the system with more modern hardware.

Without X Server support at the OS level for the new hardware, doesn't really matter if vim supports it on its source code.

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AlecSchueler 124 days ago
But surely not every BSD user?
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giancarlostoro 124 days ago
Not every BSD user, but the one you're responding to is most likely in that camp.
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AlecSchueler 121 days ago
But then there's no BSD/Linux dichotomy as they suggested.
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