This is a recurring pattern I keep seeing come up again and again with open source / Linux. I still don’t see any real benefits to switching to Wayland as a user other than it being a Shiny New Thing. In fact, this is a net negative for me.
When I previously tried Wayland, my DE wasn’t compatible and most of my software had to be run through their XWindows compatibility layer and required myriad workarounds and tuning just to get a basic desktop environment running. This NVIDIA hack is yet another example.
It still felt like alpha quality software even though it has been in development for 10 years(!) now. Why would users ever not stick with something that is stable and just works?
When I previously tried Wayland, my DE wasn’t compatible and most of my software had to be run through their XWindows compatibility layer and required myriad workarounds and tuning just to get a basic desktop environment running. This NVIDIA hack is yet another example.
It still felt like alpha quality software even though it has been in development for 10 years(!) now. Why would users ever not stick with something that is stable and just works?