Resistance to change [LWN.net]

Resistance to change

Posted Jun 14, 2025 6:41 UTC (Sat) by jem (subscriber, #24231)
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

Wayland can be compared to battery electric vehicles. BEVs are simpler and more efficient than the ICE cars they are replacing. The user interface when driving is almost exactly the same. But "they don´t match my use case", "they wear out tires more quickly", and "they don´t sound right". And yet there are tens of millions of BEVs out on the roads every day.

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Resistance to change

Posted Jun 20, 2025 13:14 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]

The transitions are at different stages though. If the ICE –> BEV car transition was at the same stage as the X –> Wayland one, there would be around the same number of vehicles each in circulation (corresponding to users of X / Wayland desktop environments), and ICE vehicles would be a shrinking minority now or in the near future. However, BEV cars haven’t reached break even in terms of vehicles newly entering circulation, let alone in terms of vehicles in circulation.