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It's surprising to me that attractive, GPU-accelerated window compositing is not a 100% solved problem in the Linux ecosystem. I'm assuming I'm missing some hug

• yoavm 1y ago
  It really is a solved problem. This is just one window manager out of tens that is trying a new method for monetising (or sustaining) the project. I don't think there's much to learn from it about any technical challenges.
• resoluteteeth 1y ago
  It is a solved problem but because of how Wayland works, window managers are also compositors, so if you want to make a new window manager you are actually technically making a "compositor", although most of the small ones just implement window management on top of wlroots. Most people would just use kde or gnome which have their own compositors.
• const_cast 1y ago
  > It's surprising to me that attractive, GPU-accelerated window compositing is not a 100% solved problem in the Linux ecosystem. It is - kwin has been doing this for a long time, both on X and now on Wayland. The problem is that the Linux desktop is composed of mostly open-source software. So people are going to make their own things, fork whatever you make, whatever. There's no one true "blessed" method like we see on Windows or Mac because that's literally impossible on Linux. There's no one corporation or entity strangle-holding the desktop to how they want it done.