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by fluffybucktsnek 34 days ago
> Wayland also has fewer features than xorg; and there are also fewer choices available

Because Wayland is a strictly a window management protocol focused on policy over mechanism.

> I am not even going to issues wayland has with regards to certain video graphics - that's another not mentioned issue here.

We also aren't going to mention issues Xorg or XLibre have with some graphics setups, because that's neither here nor there. This is a thread about security.

> I don't think so: <XLibre github repo link>

Didn't XLibre break some applications when launched?

> Would it not be somewhat interesting if wayland were to be abandoned eventually due to having too few useful features compared to xserver?

It would be interesting to see Wayland abandoned for a better protocol/set of protocols, xserver is neither a protocol nor really better.

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> Didn't XLibre break some applications when launched?

It can't have broken as many things as Wayland

It can. Easily.

Wayland is a new protocol, without an established implementation; X11 is an older protocol, while Xorg was an established implementation and XLibre is trying to modernize its codebase. Recall https://xkcd.com/1172/ .