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GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
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Better to ship with X11 and make Crapland optional.
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Why? Wayland has been working well on non Nvidia hardware on Gnome the entire time I've been using it - since 2016.
I truly don't understand the people who make hating Wayland their entire personality.
You're in the minority and stuck in the past. Be thankful the devs are keeping X11 as an option for you.
I disagree.. The problem actually is that Wayland is optional, and still is.
So everyone was dragging their heels (and some still are). If all the major distro's set a cut off date, then things would speed up. The biggest reason for delay was Nvidia imho, so now that they're sorted, it seems things are falling into place faster.
X11 still hasn't solved any of their real issues, and its still a security nightmare (which can't be fixed). Furthermore, most of the developers have moved off it.
What exactly do you like about X11?
That it works just fine for my purposes. When it does not I will switch to Wayland but I have no reason to at the moment.
That's the default everywhere else, yes