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Wayland is responsible for kneecapping linux desktop in so many ways its infuriating, especially since linux basically figured out the golden standard of UX design back in the 2000s with stuff like GNOME 2 and Compiz.
It's such an unnecessary burden with progress as slow as ripoff projects like star citizen.
I hope valve picks up the slack with frog protocols or at least gets PRs merged, because it would be stupid to ship steam machine and then explain to the user that the clipboard doesn't work yet, even though it used to work perfectly fine in X11.
Have you last used wayland 6 years ago??
Here's a feature list
~~Yes~~ Yes I have been continously using it and it wasn't viable until around late 2023 and early 2024.
My complaint isn't that it sucks now, its that it sucked for a solid decade doing nothing.
If it doesn't suck now, then valve doesn't have anything to explain, no?
Its still lagging is its MRs, like HDR coming in just less than a year ago.
Valve's complaint was that even after getting approval from at least 3 DE projects, protocols were not getting merged due to hypothetical discussions and implementation baggage.
I imagine it all started with them making their gamescope compositor a few years ago and realizing a bunch of stuff was still missing.