On what planet is this true?
update: I sit somewhat corrected. I have retried KDE with an NVidia card and /usr/bin/Xwayland and am impressed. Not 100% perfect, but very usable.
Being Asahi is not only brand new but not even near a first stable release the amount of surprise about the lack of xorg focus seems as silly as those that act like wayland reached parity 2 years ago
Ultimately X11 works out of the box and with a quick .conf change I can easily setup my default monitors at the gdm login (or whatever Ubuntu uses these days).
I don’t have a dog in the fight on a display interpreter. But wayland just doesn’t work in my use case. And hasnt through multiple iterations (this laptop was built on 20.04 and went through a few non-lts releases before I just stuck to 22.04. )
Red Hat has announced they are depreciating Xorg already; which is a huge deal because they are almost single-handedly the only contributor keeping Xorg alive. Once they are done, work on Xorg will basically cease forever.
Considering Xorg is based on X11 which dates back to June 1984, I can’t blame them. A graphics system from 1984 is not suitable for 2023 in any capacity. Not without a ton of hacks, workarounds, and jank everywhere.
"depreciation" happens when capital investments lose value over time, often for tax purposes.
"deprecation" is when the builders of a tool want to discourage you from using the tool going forward because a better solution exists.
The latter is the one that applies to software.
For every FOSS project, it is up to the maintainers to decide the scope of what the project supports. Asahi Linux maintainers have every right to drop support for X11 when it increases the development burden and, according to the post, has lower performance than Wayland on the supported hardware.
Anyone who absolutely needs to stay on X11 due to a use case not yet available on Wayland-compatible software, your options are to switch to a different distro, fork Asahi Linux, or wait for that use case to be supported on Wayland-compatible software.
Based on the decisions mainstream Linux distros and desktop environments have been making, it's clear that Wayland adoption is increasing while X11 is gradually being deprecated. By the time Asahi Linux hits stable, supporting only Wayland will become an even more obvious choice than it is today. The words "don't come to us asking for help" may sound harsh, but they clearly communicate that X11 will no longer be supported on Asahi Linux.
I do wonder if that isn't a solution. Couldn't they just ship rootful xwayland as the officially supported X server on Asahi, thereby being able to drop X.org without trashing people's setups?
Edit: This is a suggestion, not a "well why didn't they just do this".
So, yes, there's striving to a Wayland, post-X11 future, but it's far from the sure thing that X11 is.
Asahi just happens to focus on hardware where Xorg's flaws are more obvious, so X will be more broken than usual. But it reflects the future of Linux graphics.