Hello! This is a parody of the infamous "boycott wayland" thread. Meant to be a reference of issues, instead of tracking actual flaws with the wayland ecosystem or pointing out helpful resources or alternatives, the creator mostly cites secondhand anecdotes, personal opinions, and outdated or provably false statements. When commenters tried to point out the outdated information and suggest improvements to the gist, their comments were either deleted, harrassed by the creator of the gist, or edited to include homophobic remarks.
Do not take anything here seriously, I made this mostly as a joke. If you have extra things to add leave them in comments (i won't harass you)
Gnome will no longer support Xorg going forward because of stability issues inherent to X11
Tons of popular apps are broken on Xorg, with seemingly no alternatives
Xorg provides no solution for fractional scaling, leaving window managers to hack around the issue. Wayland provides this by default
The xorg-xserver codebase is messy, unmaintained, and full of security issues
- Xorg allows any user and window to perform unsafe actions with no way of mitigation ❌
- Xorg has had major unpatched vulnerabilities existing for decades ❌
- Xorg suffers from countless security issues❌
Apparently X11 (at least as implemented in Xorg) does not respect wlroots protocols, and breaks other command line tools like swaymsg, hyprctl, wayprop, ydotool, etc
help me add more things to this list!
Xorg breaks PipeWire