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Funny how Wayland is trying to replace one of the few crucial parts of the *nix ecosystem that _isn't_ fragmented. Everyone's got their own take on everything f
by arexxbifs 6y ago
Funny how Wayland is trying to replace one of the few crucial parts of the *nix ecosystem that _isn't_ fragmented. Everyone's got their own take on everything from basic stuff like kernels, shells, userland, and directory structures to bigger stuff like desktop environments.
Except X. X is X and everybody agrees that X is X. It's not perfect, but it's there, and it mostly just works, and all the programs are written for it. Instead of trying to fix the one thing we've all managed to agree upon, we're going to replace it with something completely different.
I'm not sure this is a good idea.
- jart 6y agoImagine if Microsoft abandoned the WIN32 API. It feels like only yesterday that GNOME2 was scrapped in favor of Unity despite everyone's wishes. Or the day GNOME unilaterally required all distros switch to Systemd. The GNOME project has a long history of stirring the pot and helping Linux to continually destroy itself. The project itself was actually born from petty drama and unwillingness to cooperate with the Qt developers, who unlike GNOME actually had a decent API and went out of their way to address community concerns, but were ignored.
- the_why_of_y 6y agoThe GNOME project was started because KDE required the non-free (at the time) Qt library. Probably you forgot this little detail because Qt has been free software for such a long time now.