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At this point the Wayland project is effectively keeping desktop Linux from succeeding. It might as well have been a plant project or a strategic intelligence war from Microsoft to keep Linux on the server only.

It's a ten+ year disaster project that held desktop linux back at the precise moment of complete insanity on the part of the Windows designers with Windows 8 and the dual desktop/tiles disaster and yet-another-window-kit.

Microsoft is still pissing off its customers actively, but now we have real traction with Steam for getting gamers off of MS and onto Linux.

The opportunity is still there.



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