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Wayland may soon overtake X11 in Linux GUIs (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the software needs to meet users in the middle.

No, it doesn't. No FOSS volunteer owes the users of their software anything. "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS"" after all. Your kind of views is exactly why the burn-out rate among FOSS developers has sky rocketed over the past years. Wayland and really any free software is powered by volunteers and unless you compensate them in a reasonable way, you have no stakes and zero say in the matter. The fact that they listen to users and a community which largely doesn't contribute is a gift, not an obligation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If Wayland wants to be a hobby piece of software that scratches an itch for a couple of people, you're perfectly correct.

If it wants to displace Xorg, one of the most widely used pieces of software in the community, it's going to have to cater to the users' needs. And I do mean needs; a working DE is not a whim.

They can't act like the former and claim the latter. It just doesn't work that way. What good is Wayland if it won't work for the majority of people and will eventually languish in obscurity?