[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu going back to Xorg

[Darcy Casselman]

Wayland is Gnome's (and Red Hat's) experiment, not Ubuntu. Ubuntu went with
Wayland in 17.10 because they said, "whelp, let's do Gnome now."

Wayland the default in 17.10, but it's trivial to switch back to X.org.
X.org will be the default in 18.04, but it will be trivial to switch to
Wayland.

They need to figure out what to do about screensharing and remote desktop
with Wayland. They realized they can't ship an LTS without that. But once
they do, and once the kinks are worked out, it's pretty clear that Wayland
will be replacing X going forward.

Darcy.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> This means Canonical's ill thought out adventures with Unity and Wayland
> are over.
>
> No more silly experiments, just use what works.
>
> Canonical learned their lesson, but took them a long time to do so.
>
> I have no use for GNOME myself, and ran KDE for perhaps a decade and a
> half, then switched to xfce when they dumbed down things. Both were on xorg
> with no issues.
>
> On Jan 26, 2018 08:25, "CrankyOldBugger" <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, I'm not sure what my opinion is on this just yet.. need time to
>> process!
>>
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/xorg-will-default-display
>> -server-ubuntu-18-04-lts
>>
>>
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