thing is, forcing adoption before the time is right is going to reduce linux adoption. We finally have some momentum going, forcing wayland onto desktop users and having it be a terrible experience is just going to kill it
Sometimes that’s the only way to get the software around it to work. Many folks won’t fix things until they stop working, rather than when they know things are going to stop working. I know that it sucks, but that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Linux (as an ecosystem) where you can just mandate someting from on high and force you employees to do it. That’s why everything is so disjointed.
thing is, forcing adoption before the time is right is going to reduce linux adoption. We finally have some momentum going, forcing wayland onto desktop users and having it be a terrible experience is just going to kill it
Sometimes that’s the only way to get the software around it to work. Many folks won’t fix things until they stop working, rather than when they know things are going to stop working. I know that it sucks, but that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Linux (as an ecosystem) where you can just mandate someting from on high and force you employees to do it. That’s why everything is so disjointed.
On the other hand, forcing adoption too late is going to delay Wayland, and it’s not like Xorg is ever getting HDR.
Pushing it for 2025 seems about right to me; that’s still two years of dev left, and two years can go fast if there’s real impetus to improve things.