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  • The GNOME/GTK devs are on a mission - they fight down all xorg users.

    That's not good.

    by shevy-java
  • Being a GNOME thing, I imagine they'll eventually drop Wayland support too so as to not confuse users with options.

    (/s in this case, I'm actually all for dropping X11)

    by chuckadams
  • Hyper-V connects to a VM desktop using XRDP which uses X. Will that stuff still work? Can you still use gnome through XRDP?
    by confirmmesenpai
  • Really hoping window focus gets fixed, its been broken for me for about a year now, windows come up behind the one I'm using, end up typing into the wrong one etc.
    by stuaxo
  • Wayland is still years away from usable state. You still can't even autotype keepassxc passwords and there are still no good solutions for remote desktop sessions (at least I have not found any last time i checked)
    by lousken
  • A decade of a their trademark hard line "you're holding it wrong" ethos will likely already have driven away what people might object to this sort of change.
    by marginalia_nu
  • I had to look up what "Gnome Mutter" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_(software)

    > Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a display server ("Wayland compositor"). It became the default window manager in GNOME 3,

    Gnome alienated some developers around the time of GTK 3, and there have sometimes been regressions, and some opinionated unconventional design choices that everyone else was stuck with. (At the same time there was much positive benefits from the efforts.)

    Even though I don't use the default Gnome desktop on most of my systems (I usually prefer XMonad or i3wm atop X11), I still end up using applications programs written to GTK and Gnome libraries.

    Maybe this even harder push by Gnome on Wayland will drive even more effort into the alternative software, and continue to fuel the healthy competition that (for better or worst) the Linux desktop is stuck with.

    by neilv

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