tbf to this thread, wayland wasn’t really viable until 2023.
I made an existing comment on this that people didn’t like because I pointed out that most of Wayland’s “modern upgrades” like VRR, HDR, etc were unimplemented or unfinished for years. Even HDR is still “beta” on KDE iirc.
People also like to pretend the triple buffer wasn’t a can of worms for many users for a very long time (and still is on low power devices).
That’s a weird comparison because HDR is never going to happen on X.org (nor probably in the X11 protocol or clients). Wayland is being actively developed and the developers took it from something that can be made to work with some effort and some concessions to something that will reliably work in most cases. The year isn’t 1987 – software isn’t being written by nerds for nerds who can tinker and fix issues or add new features as a patchwork of unmaintainable code.
tbf to this thread, wayland wasn’t really viable until 2023.
I made an existing comment on this that people didn’t like because I pointed out that most of Wayland’s “modern upgrades” like VRR, HDR, etc were unimplemented or unfinished for years. Even HDR is still “beta” on KDE iirc.
People also like to pretend the triple buffer wasn’t a can of worms for many users for a very long time (and still is on low power devices).
That’s a weird comparison because HDR is never going to happen on X.org (nor probably in the X11 protocol or clients). Wayland is being actively developed and the developers took it from something that can be made to work with some effort and some concessions to something that will reliably work in most cases. The year isn’t 1987 – software isn’t being written by nerds for nerds who can tinker and fix issues or add new features as a patchwork of unmaintainable code.