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alyandonyesterday at 3:53 PM5 repliesview on HN

I empathize but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11.

I'll be sad if that is still the case when 6.8 rolls around as then I'll be hunting for another DE.


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throwaweeyesterday at 5:57 PM

I recommend XFCE. I used both for years and in my experience it's like KDE but stable.

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moritzruthyesterday at 4:04 PM

When was the last time you tried? What compositor?

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MegaDeKayyesterday at 4:21 PM

> but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11.

The risk in that in this age of AI-assisted bughunting, X11 security vulnerabilities are more numerous and as nasty as they've ever been. And that says a lot.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTU1NzA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-9-Vulnerabilities-AI

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bitwizeyesterday at 4:06 PM

Well, there's SonicDE, but like many such projects it's probably maintained by reactionaries which introduces its own suite of issues around security, code quality, and "will this be maintained in a year, 5 years?"

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exe34yesterday at 4:00 PM

Thank goodness I never jumped back on the KDE bandwagon once KDE4 stopped sucking donkey balls. I just went with xmonad and the few apps I actually use.