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remix2000 • today at 8:16 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Honestly I'm not gonna miss X Windows. I currently main a tablet with just 4 GiB of RAM (even though it's a machine from before RAM prices went up, heh) with an equivalent of Compiz (wayfire) running at full framerate, with really smooth multitasking for both FDO- and Android-based apps. In my experience, this simply would've not been possible with all of the bloat needed to support X Windows (not even with a bare-bones WM like IceWM [oh nostalgia]), but fortunately, I don't even need Xwayland installed, as basically all big and small apps run natively on Wayland now.


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graemep • today at 10:39 AM

I still run into problems with Wayland because not everything works well with Wayland. here is a recent example that other people have already run into:

https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?p=706242#p706242

I also had Wayland refuse to run at all on an ARM device and this seems to be common too. I had to switch to X11 until the bug was fixed.