This planet. GNOME and KDE have both announced Wayland is default for future releases and they are working towards depreciation.
Red Hat has announced they are depreciating Xorg already; which is a huge deal because they are almost single-handedly the only contributor keeping Xorg alive. Once they are done, work on Xorg will basically cease forever.
Considering Xorg is based on X11 which dates back to June 1984, I can’t blame them. A graphics system from 1984 is not suitable for 2023 in any capacity. Not without a ton of hacks, workarounds, and jank everywhere.
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This planet. GNOME and KDE have both announced Wayland is default for future releases and they are working towards depreciation.
Red Hat has announced they are depreciating Xorg already; which is a huge deal because they are almost single-handedly the only contributor keeping Xorg alive. Once they are done, work on Xorg will basically cease forever.
Considering Xorg is based on X11 which dates back to June 1984, I can’t blame them. A graphics system from 1984 is not suitable for 2023 in any capacity. Not without a ton of hacks, workarounds, and jank everywhere.
OT friendly reminder:
"depreciation" happens when capital investments lose value over time, often for tax purposes.
"deprecation" is when the builders of a tool want to discourage you from using the tool going forward because a better solution exists.
The latter is the one that applies to software.
I know, but I work on a smartphone with ambitious autocorrect.
But it still won't be at parity or stability with X11 for the next... 10 years, is my guess?
So, yes, there's striving to a Wayland, post-X11 future, but it's far from the sure thing that X11 is.
Seems to be closer than I thought.