Oh, I fully agree that the tech behind X is absolute garbage. Still works reasonably well a decade after abandonment.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t move on, I’m saying the architecture and fundamental design of Wayland is broken and was fundamentally broken from the beginning. The threads online when they announced the projects were very indicative of the following decade. We are replacing a bit unmaintainable pile of garbage with 15 separate piles of hardware accelerated soon-to-be unmaintainable tech debt.
Oh, and a modern server doesn’t usually have a graphics card. (Or rather, the VM you want to host users within). I won’t bother doing the pricing calculations, but you are easily looking at 2-5x cost per seat, pricing in GPU hardware, licensing for vGPUs and hypervisors.
With Xorg I can easily reach a few hundred active users per standard 1U server. If you make that work on Wayland I know some people happy to dump money on you.
Oh, I fully agree that the tech behind X is absolute garbage. Still works reasonably well a decade after abandonment.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t move on, I’m saying the architecture and fundamental design of Wayland is broken and was fundamentally broken from the beginning. The threads online when they announced the projects were very indicative of the following decade. We are replacing a bit unmaintainable pile of garbage with 15 separate piles of hardware accelerated soon-to-be unmaintainable tech debt.
Oh, and a modern server doesn’t usually have a graphics card. (Or rather, the VM you want to host users within). I won’t bother doing the pricing calculations, but you are easily looking at 2-5x cost per seat, pricing in GPU hardware, licensing for vGPUs and hypervisors.
With Xorg I can easily reach a few hundred active users per standard 1U server. If you make that work on Wayland I know some people happy to dump money on you.