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by jdub 3y ago
There won't be a killer app for Wayland specifically. It's infrastructure. It's also not the place where all the showy (but ultimately annoying) user interface fluff will be found. It's infrastructure. The question is wh
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by jdub 3y ago
What's important about X is the clients . Thus, Xwayland.
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by jdub 3y ago
Ubuntu was released with GNOME 2.8, was shipping Unity as the default desktop at the time GNOME 3 was released, and only switched the default desktop to GNOME 3.28 (configured to look more like Unity) in 2018.
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by jdub 3y ago
It's not a matter of the environment vs economic austerity, rejected by the people, it's the environment vs corporate abuse, rejected by those in power.
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by jdub 3y ago
I was the release manager of GNOME 2, a very early employee at Canonical, and continued to be involved with GNOME during the GNOME 3 efforts.
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by jdub 3y ago
It's difficult to elaborate on "nope", unless someone wanted to do a point-by-point takedown, which it doesn't deserve. I'll focus on one thing: the genesis of GNOME 3. Firstly, it felt like the right time. Many of
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by jdub 3y ago
None of this is remotely true. I was there.
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by jdub 3y ago
You question the phrase "late stage capitalists" and use the phrase "cultural marxists"? Shoo.
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by jdub 3y ago
Sadly, no one will use your extremely slow text editor.
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by jdub 3y ago
That is ahistorical, and the misnaming doesn't help make your point.
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by jdub 3y ago
Gtk has always been primarily built by and for Linux users.
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by jdub 3y ago
Supporting a feature on one platform does not make a toolkit less relevant or practical on another platform.
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by jdub 3y ago
They do, it's just not hugely visible. Two great conferences where some of that work happened were linux.conf.au and the Linux Plumbers Conference.
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by jdub 3y ago
GNOME has driven plenty of important system level integration initiatives. Because that's what you have to do when building a user experience.
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by jdub 3y ago
Try calling a guitar a "gadget" to serious players or collectors. :-)
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by jdub 3y ago
That's mostly the timeframe of his career. It doesn't put jerks at his level.
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by jdub 3y ago
They're not even in the same sport, let alone the same league.
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by jdub 3y ago
Vint Cerf
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by jdub 3y ago
He's taken an okay performing social network, laden it with debt, absolutely obliterated its reputation and value by screwing around with it like a coke-addled toddler (with some kind of fascination for fascist-adjacent politics), and
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by jdub 3y ago
All of Canonical's most hilarious (and sad) mistakes came directly from the top. But in fairness, so did the initial insight (the gap in the distro market).
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by jdub 3y ago
But do they represent the Intel brand? Did Papyrus represent the Avatar brand? DID PAPYRUS?!
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by jdub 3y ago
One factor is that licensing fonts can be extremely expensive. So, make one: pay a higher upfront cost, create something unique to represent your brand, and never pay another cent.
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by jdub 3y ago
I work in streaming video, specialise on AWS, and have enjoyed using Step Functions for certain (non-video) projects. I am _astonished_ that Step Functions + S3 was even considered as a starting point for defect detection in streaming video
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by jdub 4y ago
What the article describes is a compiled Go binary that will run on any* Linux system without using any form of libc, dynamically or statically. So it's not just relevant to musl or musl-based distributions (perhaps especially because
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by jdub 4y ago
It is very difficult to describe anything Elon has done to Twitter since (and including) buying it as "rational".
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by jdub 4y ago
WAP (which I hasten to say meant something else in the 90s, probably to its detriment)
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by jdub 4y ago
The OSI definition hasn't changed. It barely changed what it borrowed from the Debian Free Software Guidelines before that. ("Open Source" itself isn't a trademark, but the OSI bits are, so I removed it to avoid confusio
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by jdub 4y ago
Software Freedom is an ideology. Open Source is a definition.
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by jdub 4y ago
Take all the answers to your question. Then consider that they're not just the reasons you'll have trouble competing, they're the reasons you won't bother starting.
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by jdub 4y ago
The return.

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