arewexlibreyet.md

Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distributions supporting XLibre so that you can make an informed choice.

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Since these are not workstation (desktop) operating systems, Wayland may be sufficient for their use case (no complex window management needed, everything fullscreen).

Well see the thing is i've tested wayland lakka on a uhd 630 intel igpu and emulators crashed and when i did get something to work performance was terrible

Wayland is only good if your distro is not being used by older hardware configurations which batocera and lakka are
which means a ton of older hardware users are going to have a worse experience since not everyone user is on a steam deck

Since these are not workstation (desktop) operating systems, Wayland may be sufficient for their use case (no complex window management needed, everything fullscreen).

yeah for console it is not big deal, like i dont need to screen share or drag and drop on a console which are a pain on wayland.

It's not a big deal until you run it on a intel igpu that's very capable and wonder why it's suddenly no longer capable
if every lakka and batocera user was on a steam deck i'd agree with you but they're not it's a wide range of hardware some of which does not work so great in a wayland environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYGg5hhiWo