Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu will move away from the traditional X.org display environment to Wayland — a more modern alternative. The move means there is now little reason for GNOME developers to recommend Ubuntu as an operating system. Shuttleworth said, 'We're confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we'll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all its GL dependencies, is the best interface for the desktop. We'll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there's no reason for them not to be there on day one either.'"

Comments

Very skeptical.

[seeker_1us]

I looked at the description of the Wayland project. Granted, it's a couple years old, but it looks like it only works on a limited set of hardware.

They talk about using nouveau for NVIDIA cards... well that is really not an option for some people.

Ubuntu should NOT limit their hardware choices.

Re:Like Mac OS X

[jedidiah]

> So, it'll be kind of like running X on my Mac OS X machines. A modern
> display server, with the ability to run a non-root X on top of it.

Yes. In other words it will be something that makes you want to delete the offending OS and run a proper Unix/Linux.

MacOS fits into the "nifty like BeOS but less useful in practice" category here.

Re:Ok great for beginners

[somersault]

That's an awfully long way of saying "I fall into the 1% of users you mention that don't want this".

Out of interest, do you even run Ubuntu right now?