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Is Red Hat still following the playbook? The more companies are engaging in this sort of strategy, the less concentrated the control should be, right?
by LeanderK 4y ago
Is Red Hat still following the playbook? The more companies are engaging in this sort of strategy, the less concentrated the control should be, right?
- akagusu 4y agoYes. Others are doing the same, probably to take some control for themselves, but have a look on the recent conversation about GTK5 being Wayland-only. It is the same playbook they used to force Systemd adoption all over again. So, yes, they are still using the same playbook.
- nyberg 4y agoWayland being a requirement sounds like a sound choice in terms of maintenance and the issues of X itself. Applications don't need to update to GTK5.
- akagusu 4y agoWhat are these issues of X? Because everyone talks about the issues of X, but Gnome, KDE, Xfce and others run flawless on X, but these same desktops have problems when running on Wayland.
- yarg 4y agoX has some fundamental security issues: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-people-saying-that-the-x-window-system-is-not-secure https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe... The lack of problems on X and the problems on Wayland are mostly an issue of maturity.
- stuaxo 4y agoGtk4 is easier to port to other platforms than previous iterations and Gtkt should follow that trend, so if someone wanted to make an X port they could.