X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story -> BSD Desktop.

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

Some big projects seem to talk out loud about compatibility and
maintenance issues of "modern" solutions as well as "enforced changes"
ideologies in Open-Source :-)

I like the "Linux is already a small section of the KiCad userbase"
statement, that seems to confirm my old saying "Open-Source is much
bigger than Linux, Linux is only small part of Open-Source" (aka
"Linux is Open-Source, but Open-Source is not only Linux").

"Linux mindset" clearly means "enforced changes" and
"self-incompatibility" which may be nail to its coffin in the long
run. More and more people can see that clearly now.

As European countries seem to ditch Microsoft solutions in the gov/edu
areas and there is a very strong push now towards Open-Source,
unfortunately still towards Linux as the first candidate, this may be
a great chance for BSD to come out and take a lead with its solid
roots and long term compatibility as the well established Desktop
Environment. This opportunity should not be missed.

I hope this will also be a good time to reveal Open-Source drivers
problems, lack of development support from vendors, maybe gain funding
from the governments, and that Linux will not lead this mess anymore.
We should all have a common base for stable useful versatile and
self-compatible drivers that can be used along on all Open-Source
operating systems :-)

Have a good day folks :-)
Tomek

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