X being abandoned and being called abandonware can be said without any assumptions about Wayland. Unless a group of people steps up and actively maintains it, X is dying a little more every day.
Yes, there are things in Wayland that need to be fixed. There are also things in X that need to be fixed.
With Wayland, someone may actually be interested in fixing them.
Regarding screen share I only ever had problems using proprietary applications, which is nothing Wayland or anyone other that the vendor can do anything about.
In browsers or other FOSS applications, screen share works just fine.
These are all good points, but please note that I’m not contending whether Wayland can do anything about it. I’m saying it’s misleading to imply that end users can replace x11 with Wayland. If you look beyond the individual projects, the ecosystem does not function as a complete desktop environment in the way that x11 does.
Well, I guess “complete desktop environment” means different things to different people.
When it comes to gaming then sure, the gap in Wayland is probably larger than the gap in X or the gap in Linux gaming in general.
I have been using Wayland for quite a while now and last time I used it with a “complete desktop environment” like Gnome (which is not my daily driver), I found very few things lacking. In fact, the only thing I can come up with is window sharing of native Wayland windows from apps running in XWayland compatible mode. Given that, I would disagree with your assessment that Wayland driven DEs are not ready for wide spread use.
X being abandoned and being called abandonware can be said without any assumptions about Wayland. Unless a group of people steps up and actively maintains it, X is dying a little more every day.
Yes, there are things in Wayland that need to be fixed. There are also things in X that need to be fixed. With Wayland, someone may actually be interested in fixing them.
Regarding screen share I only ever had problems using proprietary applications, which is nothing Wayland or anyone other that the vendor can do anything about. In browsers or other FOSS applications, screen share works just fine.
These are all good points, but please note that I’m not contending whether Wayland can do anything about it. I’m saying it’s misleading to imply that end users can replace x11 with Wayland. If you look beyond the individual projects, the ecosystem does not function as a complete desktop environment in the way that x11 does.
Well, I guess “complete desktop environment” means different things to different people.
When it comes to gaming then sure, the gap in Wayland is probably larger than the gap in X or the gap in Linux gaming in general.
I have been using Wayland for quite a while now and last time I used it with a “complete desktop environment” like Gnome (which is not my daily driver), I found very few things lacking. In fact, the only thing I can come up with is window sharing of native Wayland windows from apps running in XWayland compatible mode. Given that, I would disagree with your assessment that Wayland driven DEs are not ready for wide spread use.