Wayland, X, efficiency and system requirements

[Hyporeal]

No, but they did say "we won't support wayland" which is about as blunt as you can get.

"NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has publicly stated, "We have no plans to support Wayland."

It seems that you were lying about the "we won't support Wayland" bit. I really don't appreciate being lied to. It's a shame that you think you have to misquote other people in order to make your point.

[PhillyPhil]

Its equally amazing how just as quickly a company will tell someone "no" and they'll assume it means 20 other things...

They haven't actually said 'no', just 'currently no plans'...

If the hardware vendors are not getting behind it, maybe it's too early to panic, but it's definitely too early to even remotely start to consider a distribution timeline. It.is.not.supported. Until its embraced by at LEAST the major GPU developers of the world, its smoke and glass.

No, it's not supported now, but that's not really an issue seeing as Canonical isn't using it now...

One thing is certain: X won't last forever.

[aaaantoine]

I think the proprietary driver developers will put in an effort to make their offerings work with the modern Linux graphics stack (and maybe even contribute useful code changes to parts of the open source stack) when they find that the platform they're currently developing for is no longer supported by major distros.

Nvidia says they won't support Wayland now. But when everything in the stack -- top to bottom -- is working against them, they are going to have to think about what is more expensive: maintaining their version of the old stack until kingdom come, or building a driver to work with the new stack.