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Interesting. I came to accept the rewrite for libinput, considering it's being developed by the same developer as synaptics, and he/she who codes gets to decide
by tannhaeuser 3y ago
Interesting. I came to accept the rewrite for libinput, considering it's being developed by the same developer as synaptics, and he/she who codes gets to decide whether to maintain something he/she considers a mess of course. However, the only possible reaction from my side was to leave behind what was causing physical pain for me and return to Mac OS. From past discussions ([1], [2]), it appears I'm far from the only one. I hope the extant desktop devs at Red Hat and elsewhere enjoy their big refactorings for the sake of it as a hobby (wayland, gnome, libinput, systemd) but man does it suck. It's such a regression I've given up any hope and think desktop Linux has already peaked around 2016-18.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313903
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428847
- ComputerGuru 3y agoYou’re not the only one to express this sentiment; a lot of people grappling with the discontinuities in the X11 to Wayland migration (and the gnome 2 to gnome 3 to gnome 4) have been saying the same thing. And that’s just for cases where the same developers have decided to move on to a new approach and the community has begrudgingly agreed to march along.