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Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
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This shoehorning of Rust feels more artificial than Wayland's. 🤔
Uhm, what?
Wayland has been in the works for more than a decade. Granted, there's some people having issues with it, with propietary hardware (nVidia) and not-so-common setups like two monitors, but it happens that they are the most noisy. For the rest of us it's been great, stable, and feels snappier than X.
If you want to talk about shoehorning stuff into Debian, talk about systemd.
Explaining, changes happening too abruptly feel artificial. Wayland's been around for a while, sure, but it was barely adopted and then a lot of people started insisting on it overnight.
There is this really strange perception amongst Wayland critics that it had low market share and nobody was using it.
The majority of Linux desktop users are on Wayland and we still have people posting that nobody is using it or even that it “doesn’t work”.
Wayland switched to the default in places where it was already popular and is becoming required in places where few are switching away from the default.