Techrights

No, I Don't Want Your Latest XYZ, ThankYouVeryMuch...

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 26, 2025

Oh, so Wayland is finally ready?

Great!

I thought it was ready last year.

And last year I thought it was ready in 2023.

Dang!

Phoronix told me it was ready in 2020.

Goddamn!

Phoronix has always been telling me (for a decade already) that X was dead or dying.

Oh, wait.

Really?

It's still being developed?

Can I use it?

Nice one.

That still works for me:

roy@vonick:~$ uptime

09:23:48 up 625 days, 15:08, 37 users, load average: 0.52, 0.60, 0.72

But Wayland would also run OK for almost 2 years, right?

Oh.

Wait, it also lacks support for X tools, right?

roy@vonick:~$ x

Display all 153 possibilities? (y or n)

OK, so I cannot use Wayland. It does not support many things that I use all the time. I need a system I can rely on, I am not a tinkerer.

But it's new, you say... right?

Wayland started in.

Wait a second.

It started in 2008.

So...

Let me put it like this...

Why is it still barely adopted?

Is there something wrong with Wayland?

Maybe X just works OK for most people. It is secure enough for OpenBSD.

We'll stay with X then.

Wait, are you saying people who insist on still using X are nazis? (Like IBM)

Oh, I see... █