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Boy who cried wolf in reverse?

Boy who cried wolf in reverse?

Posted Jun 12, 2025 17:15 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Boy who cried wolf in reverse? by daenzer
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

> Sounds like a labwc issue, not a Wayland one.

That's exactly the attitude that is the problem here.
Since a decade I hear "Wayland is usable/stable/ready/etc...".
Of course the user expects that it would mean to actually be usable as a whole (Desktop daily work). That's the only sane thing to assume, right?

That's the same thing as saying: "Your room is ready. What? The staircase to your room is completely blocked? Well, that's a whole different story! I only said your *room* was ready."

For a user it doesn't make a difference.

And no, apparently it's not a labwc issue. It works as expected. labwc is *designed* to start up as user unfriendly as possible. For whatever weird reason. It's clearly documented here: https://labwc.github.io/getting-started.html
Sorry, this is not going to make users happy.

I tried *multiple* ways to use Wayland and so far *none* of it worked for me.
That's why Wayland as a whole doesn't work for me, yet.


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