I asked about their HDR support and got nothing back. Fuck maybe some of us old game devs should offer to help them finish it up if that's the issue. Wayland didn't even consider basic user needs, and was conceived as a toy project by all accounts. With HDR support an Xorg fork could kill off wayland.

@idiot@shitposter.world @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org You have to understand that Xorg was only maintained due to sponsorship of some corporations that sell Linux support services, like RedHat.

They decided to not care, and thus it's dead.

To keep it running somebody would have to test it on all kinds of hardware, diagnose the bugs, and fix them. That's not happening. Especially on Arm hardware which exposes too much detail of the GPU pipeline to the OS it's broken a lot of the time. This is because Xorg was designed for something like Indy, and there is significant impedance mismatch between the Xorg's model of what GPU is and today's reality.

All that said the GNOME team that RedHat sponsors made sure that Wayland is way more broken than it has to be.

Behind every other missing feature or broken implementation of something in Wayland there is a GNOME developer on RedHat's payroll ​​

@idiot @bonkmaykr That's a ransom note quote. With context, your comment is obviously bogus:

"This is yet another gigantic mask-off moment...."