Crysstalis

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1. 121.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   Obviously it's not anyone who is willing to pay for maintenance of the X server and all the X libraries. If those stagnate and become broken, then they will likely remove the X backend.
2. 122.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   >configurable DPI is still extremely buggy, extended color spaces haven't even started development Those have started development. They're not done yet. Compare to X11 where no one is working on fixing those things. >Wayland
3. 123.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   Screen recording is out of scope for wayland. Each server doesn't have to decide anything, basically every desktop working on this has converged on using pipewire for screen recording.
4. 124.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   Telemetry won't help, the issue is that there are few developers contributing to X11 anymore. The project is on the way out. Ninety-nine percent of users could be using it and it wouldn't change that. It's not like Windows 7
5. 125.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   >I fear that we're heading down a pretty horrible path where people will build fragile software that links against even more esoteric runtime requirements, creating software that's completely unusable unless it's running i
6. 126.▲
   by Crysstalis 4y ago

   That was already the normal long before flatpak. Installing the same packages with your distro package manager will also install the same several gigabytes. The number you see in flatpak might be an illusion though, the real amount of space