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[Mark Fraser]

On Sunday 21 Nov 2010 08:19:36 Sean Miller wrote:
> On 20 November 2010 17:39, Jake Davies <jdavies.thfc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you think Ubuntu will successfully implement Wayland+Unity? For those
> > of you behind in Linux news, they're dropping X+GNOME in future
> > releases!
> 
> Being a bit behind on this one, I Googled...
> 
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/unity-to-embrace-wayland-display-server/
> 
> For those "more in the know" what would this mean to the non-techy
> user?  Would they see much difference in terms of "user experience"
> (barring "less flicker" or whatever) or is this just similar to the
> various different sound drivers that exist or proFTP vs. ANO?

The only thing that concerns me at the moment is that Wayland is incompatible 
with the proprietary drivers from Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia have also said that 
they have no plans to make drivers compatible with Wayland.
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