Hi Steve.

Steve Litt - 12.07.19, 19:53:
> What do you think of Wayland? I hear Buster now defaults to Wayland.
>
> I've always been under the impression that Wayland is just another
> overly complexified mess from Redhat and Freedesktop.org.

I do not share that view.

For me rather X11 todays is that overly complexified mess. And it has a
huge ton of security issues too. So for example an application can see
the whole screen and receive *all* keyboard input. From what I learned
it would be trivial under X11 to make a keylogger app with a hidden
window. Wayland has a much tighter security.

For me it is not black and white. Not everything coming *through* Red
Hat and Freedesktop.org is a mess.

I did my own tests with Plasma on Wayland every now and then. So far it
did basically worked but it was not quite round and polished for me.
Plasma developers are still working on it.

It is a huge change.

I am also reading about Pipewire which may replace Pulseaudio and at
least for some uses Jack for multimedia purposes. Coming from Red Hat as
well, they like will use Systemd to start it, but who knows, I did not
check it so far.

Thanks,
--
Martin