Wayland starting to work

Posted Feb 3, 2026 22:51 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by jmalcolm
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> The question is, what will bring these people back to X11? Because somebody that starts on Wayland even today is going to experience a lot of pain trying to switch to X11.

....Including "The [modern] applications I was using don't work any longer". Of course, one can run a nested Wayland compositor under X to handle those things, but it's going to be at a significant feature+performance deficit due to the need to channel it all through X's limitations..

> I would not be surprised if most people do not even use Xwayland in three years. What will they be using it for? GTK2 apps? Xfig?

Everything I use on a daily basis is already Wayland-native (even good ol' emacs); of course there's a long tail of things I use less often.