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ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on.
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Actually, looking through it again, and its even more hilarious when I take a second look.
Another good example "Wayland is biased toward Linux and breaks BSD". The reference is from the NetBSD blog. The Netbsd marketshare is huge, so it's really important everyone holds back for them. The funny thing is that even gnome is missing features on NetBSD: https://wiki.netbsd.org/GNOME/ . So, should Wayland fix their OS for them?
To be clear for 90% of that whole link you've posted, it isn't the Wayland Development teams responsibility to pick up slack on other projects. It sucks that they won't be there for the beginning of the transition, but, if we transition earlier, they'll prioritise getting their crap together