cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/5946015

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed…

    • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know what people are expecting to happen with the Linux desktop. If there was ever a year of the Linux desktop, it was probably in the mid-2000s, when Ubuntu made the Linux desktop usable for regular people and promoted it with free installation CDs.

      • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’d say, by my metric of what “Year if the Linux Desktop” is, 2022 was that year. Absolutely everything came together and finally all clicked in. Not saying everything is perfect, but it works, works well, and has support for the majority of games made for Windows.

      • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, 👍 This is the year for sure! Mhmm. No way all these minor fixes to an overly complex OS aren’t the solution THIS time. /s

        • senseamidmadness@beehaw.org
          11·
          1 year ago

          Overly complex? That’s a baffling thing to say about any operating system when they are all insanely complicated. Windows and MacOS and a typical desktop Linux distro contain more code than a single human could write in a lifetime.

          • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Overly complex to the end user. Most end users don’t care how much code or internal complexity there is. AI generation is very complex but the interface is just regular English or whatever human language.

            These semantic misunderstandings are all over the Linux community and it’s reflective in the OS layout.

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    1 year ago

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    Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed… Firefox will try to move forward with stable releases where Wayland will ship by default!

    Mozilla Bug 1752398 to “ship the Wayland backend to release” has been closed this evening!

    After the ticket was open for the past two years, it’s now deemed ready to hopefully ship enabled for Firefox 121!

    This patch drops the “early beta or earlier” check to let Wayland support be enabled by default when running on recent GTK versions (GTK 3.24.30 threshold).

    Firefox 121 is due for release around 19 December and if all continues to hold, it will finally ship with the Wayland back-end enabled by default as another big step forward.

    With KDE Plasma 6.0 using Wayland by default, XWayland rootful mode improving, and other (X)Wayland progress, 2024 could very well be the year of Wayland shining in the Linux desktop limelight.

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  • captainsiscold@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I really hope they fix the issue with the picture-in-picture video not staying over top of all other windows; that’s the only thing keeping me from using Wayland Firefox right now.