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1) There's no Ubuntu LTS release with Wayland as default display server. 2) Gparted doesn't work, because it wants to run as root. You should use an applicatio

1) There's no Ubuntu LTS release with Wayland as default display server. 2) Gparted doesn't work, because it wants to run as root. You should use an application, that runs only minimal, necessary parts as root, and the UI runs with your user's capabilities. 3) Wayland compositors do not provide unrestricted access to to composed display for very good reasons. They do provide an access through controlled API. That controlled API didn't stabilize into unified one among different compositors yet, so for screen recording you have to use compositor-specific utility for now. In Gnome-Wayland/Ubuntu, you have one available by default. So yes, when you clean up the capabilities over time, the old stuff will break. But without breaking it, you cannot develop your system. Apple also breaks compatibility will old apps, even more than most Linux distros.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation. Hell, I can usually run GUI programs written for Windows in 1995 on Linux without recompilation. Don't pretend that compatibility is some kind of impossible dream.
- vetinari 7y ago
  > And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation. Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10. > Well, I can usually run GUI programs written for Windows in 1995 on Linux without recompilation. You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against, b) they don't use direct hardware access ala svgalib c) they are not in a.out format, which was recently removed, due to nobody using it anymore.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    > Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10. Yeah, I actually do it all the time. There are some programs that don't work, particularly games, but for the most part it works fine. > You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against Including glibc, and take care to jump through the appropriate hoops to ensure the linker can find them because chances are they aren't in your repo.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago

And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation. Hell, I can usually run GUI programs written for Windows in 1995 on Linux without recompilation. Don't pretend that compatibility is some kind of impossible dream.

vetinari 7y ago
> And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation. Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10. > Well, I can usually run GUI programs written for Windows in 1995 on Linux without recompilation. You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against, b) they don't use direct hardware access ala svgalib c) they are not in a.out format, which was recently removed, due to nobody using it anymore.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  > Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10. Yeah, I actually do it all the time. There are some programs that don't work, particularly games, but for the most part it works fine. > You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against Including glibc, and take care to jump through the appropriate hoops to ensure the linker can find them because chances are they aren't in your repo.