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Wayland is a good image of the main issue a company can have with developers. From the point of view of the Dev, the product that was created is perfect, satis
by greatgib 3y ago
Wayland is a good image of the main issue a company can have with developers.
From the point of view of the Dev, the product that was created is perfect, satisfying in term of design/technical specs.
But the dev does not care about the users experience. He does not realize that the most important is not how it is done or to be conceptually perfect but to reply to user needs. To do the job.
No one cares about the thing being changed/reworked, to use x, wayload or whatever but everyone expect basic features (available for decades everywhere) of Desktop to work easily out of the box.
Like screenshots.
If you can do less things than what you can do on windows, that is a huge failure.
- brightmood 3y agoAbsolutely - they didn't care for the users!
- jqpabc123 3y agoAnd consequently, the "Year of Linux on the desktop" never materialized. And instead of working to address the issue, most of the "community" refused to acknowledge there was one. Suggesting otherwise was the start a flame war. The fact that simple acknowledgment is still a work in progress after 3 decades is a less than hopeful sign for the future.
- hulitu 3y agoI use linux on desktop since 20 years. Fvwm works the same after all these years.
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- Vinnl 3y agoWasn't the issue that X wasn't a great user experience - screen tearing, bugs, etc? There's some argument to be had for what features are "basic", but as far as I know, I've been on Wayland for a couple of years now, and e.g. screenshots, screen sharing, multiple monitors all work. The post mentions things like remote control and drawing tablets, which I understand are important to people - but I think everyone would agree they're a notch above screenshots?