<story><title>Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/607091/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>Each time I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to use Linux as my main OS it&amp;#x27;s always X11 that scares me off. Booting into console to edit xorg.conf gets tiring after a while, spending hundreds of dollars for graphics card that has more stable drivers, the general ancient 90&amp;#x27;s feel. I&amp;#x27;ve tried it multiple times, but gave up each time.</text></item><item><author>jmhain</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m typing this from a wayland session of the GNOME 3.14 beta (via Fedora 21 Branched). While there are still some serious bugs, I have to say I am very impressed. The synchronization problems and graphical glitches of X always made the Linux desktop feel second rate compared to Mac or Windows. With wayland, interactions with elements on the screen such as moving and resizing windows or dragging apps to the dash are perfectly in sync with the cursor. Not even Android has achieved this.&lt;p&gt;In addition, GNOME 3.14 is looking outstanding. With the latest design refinements, I find the interface significantly more attractive than OS X (before or after redesign). It&amp;#x27;s not quite there yet, but if the community can deliver a system with fully functional wayland, portable sandboxed app containers, and a stable development target, the Linux desktop truly will stand a chance against the proprietary competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mercurial</author><text>Per default, you don&amp;#x27;t have xorg.conf anymore on modern distros. I have been in the &amp;quot;edit xorg.conf&amp;quot; boat as well, but there have been tremendous improvements since the bad old days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/607091/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>Each time I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to use Linux as my main OS it&amp;#x27;s always X11 that scares me off. Booting into console to edit xorg.conf gets tiring after a while, spending hundreds of dollars for graphics card that has more stable drivers, the general ancient 90&amp;#x27;s feel. I&amp;#x27;ve tried it multiple times, but gave up each time.</text></item><item><author>jmhain</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m typing this from a wayland session of the GNOME 3.14 beta (via Fedora 21 Branched). While there are still some serious bugs, I have to say I am very impressed. The synchronization problems and graphical glitches of X always made the Linux desktop feel second rate compared to Mac or Windows. With wayland, interactions with elements on the screen such as moving and resizing windows or dragging apps to the dash are perfectly in sync with the cursor. Not even Android has achieved this.&lt;p&gt;In addition, GNOME 3.14 is looking outstanding. With the latest design refinements, I find the interface significantly more attractive than OS X (before or after redesign). It&amp;#x27;s not quite there yet, but if the community can deliver a system with fully functional wayland, portable sandboxed app containers, and a stable development target, the Linux desktop truly will stand a chance against the proprietary competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_player</author><text>You may be surprised by the latest versions, then.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t edited xorg.conf in a long time (years?). And I&amp;#x27;m using a power user oriented distro, Arch Linux.</text></comment>