Alright so this is a post to the #linux folks who know **way** more about this than I do.
Just wanted to know other people’s thoughts on each windowing system. What’s your experience with each? What do you like more? Do you think the #vulnerabilities that people say plague X11 are cause for a real concern?
This is in no way me trying to start some war on here about which is better and I would hope here on the #fediverse, where we as a civilized people congregate, would not let it deteriorate to that.
That’s just sarcasm, let each other have it!
Okay, just kidding. That sarcasm part was actually sarcasm.
I would just like to hear what some of the Linux vets have to say about it. Like the whole “keylogger” vulnerability on X. I’m not saying that thats’s not a vuln, I’m just wondering if there has ever been a recorded incident of it ever being used in the wild. Trying to look up very specific instances like that is somewhat tough, at least in my experience.
Cause I’ve personally only used Linux for a couple of years - there’s still so much to learn. I’ve used both Wayland and X11 and I like them both. I use X because the window manager that I use doesn’t run all too well on Wayland. But the #desktop #experience on Wayland is great, I can’t lie. A few hiccups here and there but nothing that isn’t easily fixed.
Yeah, I don’t know. Just wondering what other Linux users thoughts were.
My impression is that X11 was very flexible and could do so many things and address so many corner cases, while Wayland wanted to tighten things down, give up functionality for the sake of efficiency, and really that's not the direction I personally would prefer.
It's really awesome being able to throw X11 windows across different servers. The networking side of it is really cool.
I get the argument that most people don't do that stuff these days.... but I would still miss having those features.
Yeah so maybe it's something like a sports car versus an all-wheel drive SUV.
The zippy Wayland might be faster, but it's not as capable, but plenty of users were never doing the analog of taking it off-road anyway :-)
@volkris That's fair. I've never personally used any of those features but they do sound beneficial.