Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Posted Jun 13, 2025 9:18 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Boy who cried wolf in reverse? by mb
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg
This is the same attitude as "Rust sucks - I tried to compile ripgrep for my machine with GCC-rs, and it didn't work at all. Clearly Rust is not ready to use in serious code".
Wayland is a protocol used to communicate between clients and servers. X11 is a protocol used to communicate between clients and servers. labwc is one implementation of a Wayland server; it's not the only one, and it's working as intended by the developers.
Other implementations of the Wayland protocol exist (I'm using KDE Plasma 6.3 as the server side here, with various clients such as Firefox, KMail and XWayland), and will have different issues.
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