linux users, thoughs on wayland?

ive used linux and bsd for quite some time now (mostly bsd) and i always hear about wayland, ive seen some interesting window managers that i want to try out but im not sure if its ready for daily use, thoughts?

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and

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stound

hrm. from the blog post it sounds like it's a complete replacement for Xwindows, not just a wm. which the first 2 immediate thoughts are
oh. but X just keeps getting new stuff bolted onto it. it has for... what like 40 years now?
and jebus, I hope they cut down on the 'required bugs' "features" and tighten up the security.

followed immediately by 'oh crap, I wonder if that'll break .... '

sourmilk117 · 22-25, M

@stound yeah, x is so old theres of course going to be old crusty dusty bad code, but it at least works, wayland doesnt work well on freebsd and barely on nvidia gpu's, and i cant run all my applications? if it becomes more mature i will use it but for now im sticking with xorg

stound

@sourmilk117 sadly in some distant days there were apps that wouldn't work with correct, patched X code, and from some servers you'd have to enable backwards compatibility bugs. display stuff is always hard and there's been a need to rewrite and redo it correctly for both security and general functionality for about 30 years. and something that big will always be hard to get running and going, esp when the old stuff hobbles and shuffles along so well still. hope it works in the long run.

sourmilk117 · 22-25, M

@stound yeah, i am hopeful wayland will be all the way usable and x phased out, its unfortunate its not there yet.

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