> The reality of the situation is that there's sort of a hateful half-knowledge mob dynamic around the topic, where people run into a bug, do some online search, run into the existing mob, copy over some of its "arguments" and the whole thing keeps rolling and snowballing.
Most other Linux projects "just work" without any drama (usually those not originating at Red Hat?). Makes you wonder why Wayland is so special (or maybe it is something special about the Red Hat company culture?).
Sometimes a badly designed system is simply a badly designed system, and the main forces behind Wayland seem to be exceptionally tone deaf and defensive when it comes to feedback both from users and application developers (e.g. there seems to be a general "we know better what's good for you" attitude).
Most other Linux projects "just work" without any drama (usually those not originating at Red Hat?). Makes you wonder why Wayland is so special (or maybe it is something special about the Red Hat company culture?).
Sometimes a badly designed system is simply a badly designed system, and the main forces behind Wayland seem to be exceptionally tone deaf and defensive when it comes to feedback both from users and application developers (e.g. there seems to be a general "we know better what's good for you" attitude).