Why all this pain? [LWN.net]

Why all this pain?

Posted Jun 12, 2025 21:41 UTC (Thu) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406)
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

Why on earth did Wayland end up in this hopeless situation where distros must disable X11 to force adaption of in-complete software?

So now both Wayland and X11 will die, great moves indeed.

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Why all this pain?

Posted Jun 12, 2025 23:49 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Why on earth did Wayland end up in this hopeless situation where distros must disable X11 to force adaption of in-complete software?

Distributions are disabling (or removing) this stuff because *upstreams* are disabling (or removing) increasingly-bitrotten code that nobody has worked on in many years and they're sick of carrying the dead weight.

It turns out that maintaining all of this old infrastructure is very hard work that requires (a) technical skills, (b) people skills, and (c) motivation.