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    6 months ago

    Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that Wayland compositors are forced to be inflexible monoliths that need to be so tightly integrated into a DE that they can’t be replaced.

    Edit: I’ve just learned that it’s not forced, but that every compositor used by popular DEs is an inflexible monolith by choice.

    In xorg the server, wm, and compositor all do their own thing and can be replaced trivially. It took me like 5 minutes to replace xfwm4 with i3, and that included the research.