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X11 vs Wayland (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 23 hours ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's the difference for a real user between using X11 or Wayland nowdays? I haven't found anything useful on the internet, so I'm asking you. Internet articles on the topic (and about WMs too) seem to be advertising slop since they explain anything but the real things. Also, if anyone used the XLibre fork, I would love to hear about your experience with it.

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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Waylad is technically a better idea, the progression of X11, more secure and should be faster and smoother when it's ready...

But I run into so many incompatabilities still and often janky support via xWayland that I really don't think Wayland is ready to be the default just yet.

It will be, I'm sure, but for now I spend more time fighting it than I do using it. A bit of snazz in KDE and Waydroid seem to be the only things that actually need it, for me, and so many legacy things just nope right out and crash without going back to x by force.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

There is a workaround to run Waydroid on X11, so you can still run it even if Wayland doesn't support your window manager.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

the progression of X11

Unless they reach feature parity, it's a fork, not a progression.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It's not a fork though?