Which of course means that it must be good enough for everyone, because it works for you.
Oh no, a single thing doesn't work yet, the entire system must be fundamentally broke for everyone. Definitely not just a bug or feature someone hasn't gotten to yet, no no.
If anyone wants to keep using X, they're free to step up and maintain it. So far no one has been willing.
I can also understand that these people have strong opinions on why W is so much better. The only trouble is that others, who are possibly not developers of window systems, may not care, or may find that it breaks their software, or may not want to write software that depends on W and doesn't work on X.
So what if Xorg is "barely maintained"? It works. Hell, as long as it works, it's likely better for it not to change. If there are issues, in the free software world we say "patches welcome". No developer should feel chained to a project.
The Wayland community contributes a fair share due to xwayland, and we get stuck on this quite often.
And yeah, it'll need fixes. over time. It's big, complex, and interacts with device drivers that are very much in flux.
Why would Xorg users care about XWayland, or new releases or contributor patches?
Those who contribute to Xorg and feel stuck could step up to maintain it, if they wish. (Don't they do it already?)
If they don't wish to maintain it, maybe their contributions are a waste of everyone's time? (Then again, maybe they get paid to do it, in which case it's their money-misery trade-off to make.)
Over time, Xorg users may indeed need fixes. Then, I'm sure someone will step up.
XWayland is Xorg. An Xwayland fix is an Xorg fix. An Xwayland bug is an Xorg bug.
> Those who contribute to Xorg and feel stuck could step up to maintain it, if they wish. (Don't they do it already?)
No one maintains Xorg anymore, so there is no one to review patches, merge and roll new releases with them.
There's a huge difference between wanting to fix a bit and becoming an upstream maintainer.
The maintainers left for good reason, and no one wants to be stuck with that turd.
> Then, I'm sure someone will step up.
It is not "over time", it is now or never.
You say "now or never" but I've no idea what you're talking about. Your reply makes zero sense. If there's any trouble in the future, I'm sure someone will step up, as I said.
Your attitude to the problem is a big contributor to Xorg upstreams demise.
The biggest is, of course, that none of the maintainers wanted to deal with that dumpster fire anymore and jumped ship, and no one in the know is dumb enough to pick up the torch. But, a delusioned userbase is very unhelpful in recruiting new blood.
When reading up on what desktop environment to use, it's hard to get a balanced view unless there are commenters like this, saying that running Wayland works.
Kind of like reverse survivorship bias. The only wayland sessions that get attention on the internet arw the ones that don't work.