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This is the part that irritates me most about Mir: By rolling their own display server, Canonical has set back efforts to get all display vendors on board for
by ginko 13y ago
This is the part that irritates me most about Mir:
By rolling their own display server, Canonical has set back efforts to get all display vendors on board for supporting Wayland.
If Ubuntu would have switched used Wayland (along with the other distributions), there would have been a very strong incentive for all vendors to support this in their drivers.
- ikt 13y agoIf Red Hat had supported .deb packages maybe packaging wouldn't be such a pain in the ass and we wouldn't have a .tar, .deb and a .rpm for every program. There are a lot of things in linux land that don't make sense, I think picking on Canonical for choosing to do what they want as opposed to all the others who are choosing to do what they want, is very un linux like.
- ginko 13y agoThe difference is that the choice of package system is completely in the domain of open source software. Proprietary drivers require support by hardware vendors. If we had solid, feature-complete open source graphics drivers this wouldn't be an issue.
- synchronise 13y agoIf this were the case, then why is a large swathe of proprietary drivers supporting only Surfaceflinger? If it's the most popular display framework in terms of use, then why not simply make it the default? Not Wayland nor X11 could garner the numbers required to overtake SF.