Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 29, 2026 21:12 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by linuxrocks123
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> but it's still a case of Wayland damaging the Linux ecosystem for no good reason.

Reasonable people disagree on "damaging" and "for no good reason"

(Usually because they fail to consider that the former status quo was quite "damaging" in its own right)

> nor will I ever switch to Wayland.

The time is rapidly approaching where this means intentionally cutting yourself off from newer software [1] that won't run without a Wayland environment.

[1] Notably including web browsers

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Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 29, 2026 22:58 UTC (Thu) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link] (2 responses)

> The time is rapidly approaching where this means intentionally cutting yourself off from newer software [1] that won't run without a Wayland environment.

12to11 can run Wayland-infected software under X11, so no, it doesn't.

Re web browsers in particular, it would take an apocalypse to stop the modern web from working on X11:

https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef
https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
https://www.brow.sh/
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 29, 2026 23:17 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

I never cease to be amazed by the lengths folks go (and the sheer amount of busywork they undergo) in order to maintain the appearance of ideological purity.

Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 30, 2026 1:09 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

None of these projects strikes me as ideological in any way. Haven't you ever wanted to visit a website over ssh?