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yeah but the point is why bother? :) especially if I wouldn't notice differences...
To provide features that Xorg can't.
If you don't need features like fractional scaling, VRR, touchscreen gestures, etc. you won't notice a difference.
People who do use those, will. Because for them, those features would be missing or not complete on Xorg.
mmmh, I bet I will not notice any difference also if I don't do shit and keep whatever is working until the day I'll have to switch because my distro drops the packages 🤷🏼
Because it fixes all the issues I had with X. Everything runs a bit faster and is smoother plus inputs behave like they should.
sorry, my rhetorical question was obviously intended as why I should bother. I don't see any value in stopping you doing whatever you think is better for you, in fact it is exactly what annoys me the most :)
Bother to do what? As you said, when your distro switches you go with it and notice no difference. You don't have to bother to do anything.
yes!
The point of open source is kinda that you have the freedom to do as you will.
The point of packaged distros is so that you don't have to do too much.
Do as you will, brother, do as you will.
Well Xorg is pretty much unmaintained and is on its death bed. Modern hardware and software are slowly favoring Wayland due to it being much simpler by design.
well, everything which I use runs well on xorg, and I'd need to change relevant parts of my daily stack in order to use wayland sooo ... :)
Why bother what?
yes!