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by sprash 3y ago
Maybe not billionaires but in the past "activists" like Glroria Steinem were confirmed CIA operatives. These days they are called "influencers" but quiet probable still state funded.
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by sprash 3y ago
> As opposed to the mess of X protocols which are elegant and working great? They are clearly better, simpler and more tested then the conglomerate of protocol mess pertaining the Wayland ecosystem. > The X11 protocol itself is insane
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by sprash 3y ago
Besides the point. The only reason Wayland is worked on and X11 is not worked on is funding. Not because Wayland is in any way better or something. It's clearly worse than X11 in almost every aspect.
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by sprash 3y ago
> Xorg offers a fairly good out-of-box experience on many GPUs but it falls apart when you try to do things that would be considered normal on other OSes You are you talking about Wayland. Wayland has no or severely lacking mechanisms fo
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by sprash 3y ago
Two things that are wrong here: 1. Wayland was actually started in 2008 2. Wayland API is not stable even today
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by sprash 3y ago
Almost every skinnable WM has a BeOS theme. Pekwm has my favourite BeOS theme ( https://www.pekwm.se/themes/benu.html ) because it supports window grouping flawlessly, which turns every window into a potential tab just b
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by sprash 3y ago
If window icons and drag and drop are corner cases "that go against the explicit and specific designs of what the protocol should do" the "specific designs of what the protocol should do" are clearly wrong. Besides that,
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by sprash 3y ago
Xorg + DRI3 uses the exact same buffer swap mechanism as Wayland. Wayland is basically just a very over engineered protocol to blit some bitmaps. How exactly is Wayland more optimal for modern hardware?
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by sprash 3y ago
Why even bother? Wayland is on it's way out and will go down in history as the worst managed piece of system architecture in history. After year 16 (!) the responsible "committee" still has not figured out how to deal with wi
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by sprash 3y ago
In Quantum Chromodynamics we have 3 things that combine to nothng though.
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by sprash 3y ago
Don't hate this world, simply hate central banks. Fiat money is the primary reason the rich get richer and poor get poorer.
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by sprash 3y ago
Matrix and Mastodon are federated but not decentralized. I don't understand why the are getting advertised all the time. Alternatives like Zeronet are truly decentralized and barely get any mention.
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by sprash 3y ago
If you develop SQL you need to write code and view tables. A grid with monospace characters is perfectly suitable for that. But other than that, no, people don't love being in a terminal. It just happens that all open source portable t
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by sprash 3y ago
With "centralized" i really meant standardized. X11 has a standardized API that tells you how to implement window managers. Window managers themselves can be swapped, even at runtime without the need for swapping the whole display
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by sprash 3y ago
> Yes, you should optimize for the 99% case. That is basic software engineering. Wayland is optimized for car entertainment systems and digital signage. Is this your 99% case? > X toolkits since GTK in 1998 have been drawing bitmaps t
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by sprash 3y ago
> What other fragmentation was there? No strong reference implementation. No protocol for access control and resource sharing. No centralized font rendering (which is a mistake. every app looks different now even when using the same libr
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by sprash 3y ago
Very opinionated article really. It starts with unsubstantiated claims that X suffers from "bloat" despite being capable of running on a 486 and dismissing the fact that the average Wayland compositor + necessary infrastructure is
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by sprash 3y ago
More interesting would be st with the HarfBuzz patch though.
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by sprash 3y ago
Xrender is hardware accelerated and cairo uses Xrender as a backend. Why is Xrender not "viable"?
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by sprash 3y ago
I gave it a try. It's shit! Worse latency and performance (on intel and AMD), xdotools don't work, window managers don't work. Doesn't work without dbus (the first thing I usually uninstall) and additional seat/logi
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by sprash 3y ago
What is good about Wayland? I only see a really idiotic, badly designed API and a very over-complicated ecosystem that requires lots of bloat, parallel infrastructure and duplicated effort to do even the simplest tasks due to lack of standa
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by sprash 3y ago
I am sensing zero momentum for Wayland. It was is absolutely idiotic API with lots of unnecessary arbitrary restriction and vast over-complication and over-engineering for no other reason than NIHS. It will eventually be dropped like a hot
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by sprash 3y ago
It depends. High complexity with SDFs is possibly cheap. It just has to be procedural. For example a single 3D-cube has the same computational cost like an infinite array of 3D-cubes in SDFs.
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by sprash 3y ago
Have you tried WebUI? It's like a ultra minimalist version of electron. It uses available browsers instead of shipping its own. You simply write your App in html/js and everything that goes beyond (e.g. file access) is delegated t
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by sprash 3y ago
This is not a problem with X. DPI and pitch information is accessible via the xrandr extension. It's GNOME and GTK that arbitrarily chooses to ignore that information.
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by sprash 3y ago
For my personal taste it's already a mess but for the the average masochist it's maybe bearable. The real mess starts from here though: - Wayland can not render strings. You need something external just to render some other text t
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by sprash 3y ago
> multiple monitors You are talking about a very rare niche case where one monitor runs with VRR and the other doesn't. Everything else is handled just fine with X. > screen tearing. "No screen tearing" just means force
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by sprash 3y ago
I disagree. I use pgAdmin all the time. It is a very decent web application for doing typical admin stuff. If you need a fully powered desktop SQL integrated development environment there are surely better options out there but that's
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by sprash 3y ago
Despite being ancient it's still better than Wayland. The "same developers" narrative is just a story you tell yourself to justify your opinion after the fact. Wayland is fundamentaly flawed on every level. Its sprawling patc
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by sprash 3y ago
This is obviously wrong. The most capable X11 developers retired (like KP) and the least capable developers of the younger generation started Wayland.

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