alt Hacker NewsWell the pragmatic take of many users (myself included) is to stick with X11 because Wayland absolutely is not a polished product and likely won't be before being declared obsolete by the NIH crowd.
Of course, newer KWin versions also add many odd issues with X11 so I'm sure they will bug equally buggy soon enough and users can finally switch without such concerns.
> The most close analogue I can think of that most in the HN audience are familiar with is probably the Python 2->3 transition and decision to clean thing up at the expense of backward compat. To this day, you will of course find folks arguing emotionally on either side of the Python argument as well.
Yes, that was and still is a huge clusterfuck and prime example of things not to do - precisely because it is full of completely arbitrary compatibility breaks.
Wayland is significantly more polished than X on my experience on new hardware. Everything, literally everything, works and looks better. X, in comparison, seems almost plagued with a thin layer of jank over the whole thing.
X has been on life support for decades now, with new capabilities just bolted on without a care in the world. But the actual system works quite inconsistently, and some things will, presumably, never work.