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"make something new that for some magical reason wont also become hard to fix in the future" this is really well put. I wish people realized that if they are d
by watt 6y ago
"make something new that for some magical reason wont also become hard to fix in the future"
this is really well put. I wish people realized that if they are doing essentially the same thing folks prior did,
they really will end up with the same level of results. Unless they really have identified a magical fix to entropy.
- psychoslave 6y agoIt might happen though. Look how Git made a neat change in the CVS domain. Admittedly, it takes people aware of the issues with the current stack, and the ability to take a different successful approach. Those behind Wayland were competent about X11, as far as I know. But for some reasons, adoption of Wayland is still scarce.
- lmm 6y agoThe user-facing impact of switching to git is that committing is faster and you get much better branching and merging. The user-facing impact of switching to Wayland is that you stop being able to run GUI programs over SSH.
- cycloptic 6y agoWhat you're saying is not true at all, X11 forwarding still works because of XWayland.
- cycloptic 6y agoThere is no particular reason. Making big changes is never easy.