• wolf@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Seriously, I don’t understand the point of the article, if there is one.

    It seemed more like a confused enumeration of systems which are POSIX conform and in the end it talks about Wayland.

    Is the point that Wayland breaks compatibility with X11/X.org and is mostly a Linux thingy? (AFAIK FreeBSD is working on a Wayland port, but no one else.)

    Anyway, I am a happy Wayland user for several years now, although I am of course unhappy about the split with the *BSDs, OTOH most 'NIX software nowadays uses so many Linux APIs, that Wayland is IMHO no big game changer when talking about portability anyway.

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      9 months ago

      FreeBSD isn’t working on a Wayland port, that’s already happened. The Plasma Wayland session has supported it for quite a while… KDE even runs a CI job on FreeBSD for every merge request, where kwin_wayland autotests are run.

      Considering the amount of complaints we got when something broke recently though (which is to say, none), it doesn’t look like it has a lot of users

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        9 months ago

        Good to know that FreeBSD pulls Wayland off! :-)

        It is a pity, that FreeBSD is not more utilized for desktops.