But, the open-source counterparts (back-engineered drivers) seem to be quite stable at the moment. Therefore, there can be issues while trying to run Wayland under them. However, proprietary GPU drivers (such as those from Nvidia & ATI) may not fully support the new display server and the protocol. Wayland has been available for Fedora users in few of the recent releases for testing it out, but Fedora 25 uses it by default. Due to its design, Wayland significantly simplifies the whole process and is more efficient at it compared to X.Org as well. While there are many technological differences between the two (again because they belong to two different ‘worlds’), in simple terms, they are both key components of a modern computer operating system because they’re responsible for ‘drawing’ the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Wayland was created to address the drawbacks of the old X.Org display server, because X.Org was created to address issues in the old days of computing and it was becoming exceedingly difficult to patch to suit the needs of today. So anyhow, the most important change in this Fedora release is ‘Wayland’, which is the default display server protocol used. So that’s why I decided to review the latest release, Fedora 25 which was officially released a little over a week ago. So I skipped the next release (Fedora 24) out of anger to be honest, but then again, I thought reviewing it once every while would help those that love this GNU/ Linux distribution. Therefore I was no surprised to realize that systemd-readahead was not present in Fedora 23. Now, I do believe that I have a firm grasp on of the mentality of Fedora & GNOME (they’re very close communities), and thus I knew it mattered little what the users had to say about such decisions, because user criticism doesn’t change much in their world. The reason for its exclusion according to Fedora developers was because they don’t use rotational disks anymore, that was basically their explanation.
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