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The real reason wayland was done is to put proprietary applications on the desktop. That's it.
by LtWorf 2y ago
The real reason wayland was done is to put proprietary applications on the desktop. That's it.
- bandrami 2y agoWhich is ironic since it's the proprietary stuff I have to use that is least likely to work on Wayland at this point...
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoHow so? Proprietary apps work fine on X. Or do you mean the security angle where flatpak wants to be able to isolate untrusted (including proprietary) apps?
- LtWorf 2y agountrusted are only the proprietary apps… if you can review the code they aren't untrusted :)
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI generally trust FOSS to not be malicious. I don't trust it to be bug free when processing untrusted input. So no, I really do want to sandbox plenty of apps regardless.
- bandrami 2y agoSandboxing is still a solution in search of a problem. The only actual valuable data on my computer is the personal stuff that even sandboxed apps are meant to manipulate anyways. Everything else in the system I can download from the Internet for free, but my web browser still has to interact with my passwords and my spreadsheet with my finances, and sandboxing can't fix that.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> my web browser still has to interact with my passwords and my spreadsheet with my finances, and sandboxing can't fix that True, but sandboxing can fix your browser being able to read your spreadsheets without asking, or your spreadsheet having network access. Just because you have to work with programs and data doesn't mean they're all in the same security domain.
- account42 2y agoMore precisely, to put proprietary "apps" on an appliance. Windows desktop works fine for proprietary programs without any of the "security" features that Wayland-proponents want to push.