Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate.
“In this context, “breaking everything” is another perhaps less accurate way of saying “not everything is fully ported yet”. This porting is necessary because Wayland is designed to target a future that doesn’t include 100% drop-in compatibility with everything we did in the past, because it turns out that a lot of those things don’t make sense anymore. For the ones that do, a compatibility layer (XWayland) is already provided, and anything needing deeper system integration generally has a path forward (Portals and Wayland protocols and PipeWire) or is being actively worked on. It’s all happening!”
And I’m sure all the other people using 6 monitors on 2 GPUs at the same time will appreciate it.
Seriously, how common is such a scenario that you’d even mention it in this context?
3 monitors is probably a lot more common than you think.
I have, unironically, never seen anyone using three monitors together on a PC in my life.
Ive seen several devs do that, and also some of my gaming friends have 3 monitors.
I barely know anyone who only has a single display. Most people I know have one high refresh rate monitor, and one office monitor for discord and the likes.
Seriously? That’s my home setup, and a lot of my friends also have 3 monitors.
I’m surprised you don’t know anyone who has three monitors. It’s common for tech-y people.
Main work + secondary work (docs, output, …) + sensors/debug/multimedia
Since it’s probably reasonably rare it’s a good demonstration of the stability of Wayland. It makes sense to mention it imo