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KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of "Wayland breaking everything" isn't really accurate.

"In this context, “breaking everything” is another perhaps less accurate way of saying “not everything is fully ported yet”. This porting is necessary because Wayland is designed to target a future that doesn’t include 100% drop-in compatibility with everything we did in the past, because it turns out that a lot of those things don’t make sense anymore. For the ones that do, a compatibility layer (XWayland) is already provided, and anything needing deeper system integration generally has a path forward (Portals and Wayland protocols and PipeWire) or is being actively worked on. It’s all happening!"

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[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (30 children)

after more than 25 years using linux I could not care less about those dramas, when my distro will drop xorg I'll switch and that's it. I've got way too much stuff to implement myself already, there is no time for that. I mean, I've even embraced systemd...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 20 points 11 months ago (29 children)

Most distros use Wayland now and you probably won't notice a difference.

[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (16 children)

I wish that was my experience, but Nvidia drivers on KDE Wayland have had a lot of oddities and issues that have caused me to go back to Xorg every time I've tried (12 times and counting). Wayland is a good move in the right direction, and I look forward to it, but it's still being implemented.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully your card is new enough that NVK will work with it.

[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure hoping so, I haven't followed development super closely, but I'm kinda imagining that the 3080 ti should be new enough :)

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

It is. RTX 20 series and up use GSP which nouveau/NVK needs for reclocking on modern cards

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