Originally Posted by
xmbwd
Can someone let me know what Wayland brings to the table in terms of usability?
I find it a pain. In addition to the aforementioned restrictions on what sudo can do (seriously, that is not Wayland's decision to make), I use Linux because I can make my workstream more efficient using window tiling and setting up "put windows" (in Gnome, CCSM in Unity) to open applications in specific locations (e.g., terminal - left upper quarter; gedit - maximized left; firefox - maximized right; mail - maximized full). These settings save hours over the course of a year.
Why is Wayland better? <---- link
Stick to 16.04 until tiling with wayland is further developed.
Ubuntu 16.04 still has more than three years of support left.
By the time of the next LTS release of Bionic, things should have improved.
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glen@GU17:~$ distro-info --all --fullname --days=eol
Ubuntu 4.10 "Warty Warthog" -4265
Ubuntu 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" -4081
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" -3917
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake" -3094
Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" -3539
Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" -3362
Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" -3181
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" -2427
Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" -2804
Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" -2628
Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" -2440
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" -1699
Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" -2093
Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" -1892
Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" -1699
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" -251
Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" -1327
Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" -1436
Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" -1265
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" 470
Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" -894
Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" -710
Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" -529
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" 1205
Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" -166
Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" 23
Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" 198
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" 1940
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