> x11 gets the first-mover advantage of a lot of implementations and a straightforward design goal, but that's about it. It's not secure enough to recommend as a serious alternative to Mac and Windows users, and it's too slow and unopinionated to present a friendly face to new users.
I've been recommending it as a serious alternative for years, and it's always presented a friendly face.
> Features like 1:1 trackpad gestures, genuine HDR pipelines and a locked compositor framerate are all getting to the point that regular consumers expect them as default.
I have never heard anyone not already a Linux user comment on even one of those as a problem.
>I have never heard anyone not already a Linux user comment on even one of those as a problem.
Those specific words are uttered by Linux users, true. However, Linux beginners _do_ notice some X11 issues, it's just that very frequently they only know "something" is off but not why they feel so.
From anecdotal experience, touchpad gestures are actually something my friend complained so YMMV. We ended up making a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to configure the synaptics driver. Another experience had to do with screen tearing, I helped them fix it by installing a compositor.
To be fair, my anecdotal coworker evidence with Wayland has been "the Webex client doesn't work" with the ten-second remedy of showing them how to set their default desktop back to X11.
I've been recommending it as a serious alternative for years, and it's always presented a friendly face.
> Features like 1:1 trackpad gestures, genuine HDR pipelines and a locked compositor framerate are all getting to the point that regular consumers expect them as default.
I have never heard anyone not already a Linux user comment on even one of those as a problem.