> I'm curious as to whether Ubuntu's recent decision to switch to Wayland > by default will be upheld in Trisquel. Personally, I'm all in favor of > moving away from X and its myriad problems soon but not yet. I tend to > agree with the statements made by Fedora team members that it'll be the > right move eventually, but it's not there yet.
I don't know about the "myriad problems" with X, most of the problems which I know apply only to old programs (which won't be fixed by Wayland), old X server or drivers (which also won't be fixed by Wayland). X has useful features like support for clients on different machines or not requiring 2d or 3d hardware acceleration. Will such things work with Wayland? > Works with free video drivers like nouveau. X works with Nouveau, but also with Radeon (which has KMS disabled in Trisquel since it requires non-free firmware) or drivers without KMS support. > Needs nasty OSX-style nested X server for backwards compatibility. > There'd be a lot of pressure not to write Wayland-native apps as long as > other distros refused to switch. There are already good reasons to use GTK+, Qt or something similar, so no changes in typical properly written applications should be needed.
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