Stability and Reliability, Backward Compatibility
In a few days - about 5 days from now - my uptime will be "666" on the main laptop. On the same day the secondary laptop will exceed 600 days. I don't use Wayland. I never run proprietary software (unless "webapps" count as such; I try to avoid those too, at least to the extent that I can).
As somebody put it 5 days ago (in relation in Wayland): "Why are some folks so opposed to us having a choice in what software we use?"
Another person said: "Your Linux desktop isn't as "open" as you think. Corporations are systematically killing Xorg to force everyone onto Wayland: which breaks 40 years of tools that professionals have come to depend on."
I don't fancy relying on social control media as "sources", but from what I've seen a lot of the media - with few exceptions - takes bribes from the pushers of Wayland (companies like IBM) and would go out of its way to misportray users of X11/Xorg on BSD and GNU/Linux. It doesn't seem to bother them that perhaps over 90% of people do not use Wayland and many have no intention of doing so. Why? Practical reasons.
As the "systemd-free linux community" put it earlier this summer: "Is X11 Xserver dying in a classic RedHat way, “pull the plug and let it rot advertising with 90% of tech-media on the pay-roll that X is dead!”
Towards the end it says: "By 2027 you should look forward in the new proprietary closed source non-free Linux-Wayland-IBM-Oracle windows with 2 alternative flavors, Gnome or Plasma. I am willing to bet money I don’t even have, that Oracle will announce they bought Qt (a medium sized multinational corporation) . Linus and Greg go into an early retirement as multi-millionairs, the majority of the hackers become employees of Linux.inc and fork all you want the pre-2017 kernel and X/wayland/wlroots projects and see if it can be maintained by free-lance hackers who refuse and resist any formal organization. Will Gnu join the club and the party to compete head on with MS-win or remain “neutral” which they never have been. They are just as much of a dirty gang as any large organization even non-profit."
As the founder of OpenBSD put it, regarding Wayland: "The writing has been on the wall a very long time that some people believe their role in the ecosystem is to reduce software choice and push everyone into vertical software monocultures."
For Freedom (in the digital sense) we need open-ended, modular, versatile systems, not "software monocultures".
For business reasons, IBM wants vendor lock-in. █
