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> I'm member of other communities and at least one person is talking about something not working on Wayland, but working on X11, so we still have ~2-3 (up to 5
by petepete 3y ago
> I'm member of other communities and at least one person is talking about something not working on Wayland, but working on X11, so we still have ~2-3 (up to 5) years.
Thankfully I don't have to, I want shiny new software thanks.
> Remote connections comes to my mind, for example.
Nobody uses them any more.
- bayindirh 3y ago> Thankfully I don't have to, I want shiny new software thanks. That's a choice. I prefer uptime more, for example. I use boring technology to create fun things. > Nobody uses them any more. You should follow X2Go users' & OpenOnDemand mailing lists. They're very heavily used by some significant groups (e.g. scientists).
- toyg 3y agoRemote connections are dead, Netcraft confirms.
- bayindirh 3y agoThey lied to you.
- toyg 3y agoI fear my slashdot joke was not appreciated. Infamously, a post on Slashdot once stated (probably 20 years ago) "OpenBSD is dead, Netcraft confirms" - Netcraft's methods were then widely ridiculed, and obviously OpenBSD continues to be very much alive to this day.
- bayindirh 3y agoI remember reading that, but failed to make the connection (hah!). Probably a bit too tired from physical sysadmin work.
- NoGravitas 3y agoYou can run remote applications with Wayland now: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/getting_started_with_the_gnome_desktop_environment/remotely-accessing-an-individual-application-wayland_getting-started-with-the-gnome-desktop-environment https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... There is also a VNC server for fullscreen sessions (only supports wlroots compositors for now): https://github.com/any1/wayvnc https://github.com/any1/wayvnc