Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 31, 2026 13:24 UTC (Sat) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by anton
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> I think that most people don't think about these issues at all.

Most people might not think about these issues directly, but they definitely enjoy the benefits of having these issues thought about by someone else (which is what Wayland does, compared to X11).

When I (as a fictional layman) cannot watch an HDR video on Linux, or when I cannot plug my laptop into a monitor with a different PPI class and have my windows remain crisp when dragged from one monitor to another, or use VRR on said monitor, I don't think about X11 or Wayland — I just think "This sucks, give me an OS that's actually competent".

And when I install the next version of Linux (with Wayland) and all of this stuff begins to work, I think "Wow, this is actually good now, please keep doing what you're doing".

So no, people don't think about these issues. But they do notice when *their* issues get resolved.