people may remember 'Y' from many years ago, AFAIK it was suppose to replace X, but never got to the point were Wayland is now.

>The original conceit behind Wayland is to only implement what is needed for a simple Linux desktop

And this is my biggest issue with Wayland. If it started out with portability in mind maybe I would give it a try. But I am sticking with X because it is fully usable on the BSDs.

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MBCook 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t blame the developers.

I do wonder what the BSDs will do. The Wayland developers were the X developers. The problems with X all still exist.

How big a share of the desktop market do the BSDs have compared to Linux? I imagine it’s quite small, unfortunately.

	▲	jcranmer 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> How big a share of the desktop market do the BSDs have compared to Linux? I imagine it’s quite small, unfortunately. Good stats are hard to come by, but the Linux : BSD ratio is probably no larger than the Windows : Linux ratio (which is actually running relatively low these days--Linux seems to be closing in on ~3% desktop share). That puts the BSD overall in the 0.01% range, which is really too little market share to accurately measure.