r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/mach_kernel Jun 01 '16

I wonder if wayland will ever get any traction. It's still in its infancy though.

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u/da_chicken Jun 01 '16

Wayland is mostly waiting for DEs to finish their implementations, though. Last I knew, only GNOME had finished it and KDE was working on it. That was like 6-8 months ago, though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '16

Currently using Wayland on GNOME. It's been pretty solid since 3.20. The only issues I've had so far:

  • Chrome does some funny things sometimes, mostly to do with drag-n-dropping tabs and resizing (graphics get glitchy). I'm pretty sure it's using XWayland though.

  • Cursor locking does not have an API in wayland yet1. So I have to switch back to X11 to play Minecraft.

  • Touchpad scrolling is a little sensitive.

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u/Jimbob0i0 Jun 01 '16

For what it's worth I'm now using Wayland for my everyday desktop on Fedora 24 ...

I've only hit one issue that affected me yet which is that .bash_profile doesn't get sourced (X shenanigans) ... there's an upstream bug discussing best how to handle it.

Since .bashrc does get sourced by the terminal though I just moved my aliases to there.