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by sprash 3y ago
Many of those major problems (which you call annoyances) will never be sorted out because the "Wayland Comitte" has decided that even the basic functionality is "out of scope". After 15 years of development Wayland devel
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by sprash 3y ago
The current involvement of Microsoft with "Linux" is nothing more than good old EEE. Exactly as described in the Halloween Documents.
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by sprash 3y ago
> needs to be shared via encrypted p2p You mean blockchain? DNS has been solved with namecoin more than a decade ago. One of the few blockchain applications that actually make sense.
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by sprash 3y ago
> The majority of X clients that users care about are ordinary programs This is simply not true. The only "odinary" programs according to your definition that I am running are a browser and a terminal. All other xclients I&#x
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by sprash 3y ago
> GNOME and KDE Both are are really bad desktop environments and part of the reason the FOSS desktop never took off. Also they are mostly developed by full time paid employees with zero community involvement. As such they are the small n
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by sprash 3y ago
Xwayland only provides backwards compatibility for a very small subset of the X11 ecosystem (E.g. window managers or xdotool are not supported). As such it is only useful for very limited X11 clients on the level of GNOME applications and i
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by sprash 3y ago
X11 has nothing to do with "traditional" Unix. Even back in the 80s the UNIX philosophy didn't work with a graphics stack and X11 itself is very un-Unix-like. This is even more true for the modern graphics stack. That being s
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by sprash 3y ago
If you want to see some impressive gaussian splat demos take a look here: https://gsplat.tech
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by sprash 3y ago
If latency is your biggest concern you have to use a terminal emulator without double buffering. So far xterm and mlterm are popular choices.
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by sprash 3y ago
Really cool, the parallax background scrolling feature: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/background....
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by sprash 3y ago
The RaspberryPI can use one of it's IO-Pins to transmit a stereo radio signal including RDS ( https://github.com/miegl/PiFmAdv ). It's probably illegal in most countries.
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by sprash 3y ago
Pekwm[1] does this and is still actively developed. One of my favorite floating WMs. 1.: https://github.com/pekwm/pekwm
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by sprash 3y ago
Are you implying Putin blew up his own pipelines?
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by sprash 3y ago
> I'm glad you care about the FOSS ecosystem this deeply. I do as well As member of KDE e.V. board of directors you were part of the cancel brigade against Richard Stallman which was clearly an OP against FOSS. This means you are ei
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by sprash 3y ago
Proven wrong by whom? Your opinion is obviously severely biased because you get paid for working on Wayland. Job security is obviously the only reason anyone would defend this pile of garbage of an ecosystem. All your suggestions mean repla
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by sprash 3y ago
The most important points: - It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a complete Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at all). - We do not have the resources to maintain our own Wayland compositor This shou
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by sprash 3y ago
It's sabotage.
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by sprash 3y ago
DRI3 clients allocate themselves their render buffers. Hence perfectly possible with X11.
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by sprash 3y ago
Rather the opposite. Wayland is a far more opaque abstraction layer than X11. Also the "robustness" is achieved with KDE/Qt specific protocols and as such has nothing to do with Wayland. Similar functionality could be achieve
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by sprash 3y ago
> Wayland has some widely-respected values around who gets to introspect what state and who acts as authority And this is a main problem. These "widely-respected values" (by whom actually?) make sure that you can't implem
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by sprash 3y ago
> They might add some DE-specific protocol for themselves, but I don’t see why that would be a problem. What Wayland advocates don't see as a problem is the one of the main problems. I see a pattern here. > years of hard work. Th
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by sprash 3y ago
You forgot the most important reason: (0) zero community mind share as a result of extremely cumbersome and developer hostile APIs and the lack of standardization of essential functionality. QtWayland won't be able to address this beca
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by sprash 3y ago
The severely limited scope of Wayland forces all DE vendors to reinvent the wheel and basically recreate their own X11. But this time it's worse because the APIs are DE/Toolkit specific without the standardization that X11 offered
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by sprash 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. This is why it is absolutely reasonable to assume that Wayland is actually a sabotage project. X11 was far ahead of anything out there when we had compiz with spinning desktop cubes and wobbly windows running abs
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by sprash 3y ago
The "development interest" in Wayland is still mostly carried by corporate full time paid developers. Wayland as such has had zero community mindshare in the FOSS ecosystem (until Hyprland came along but that is literally just one
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by sprash 3y ago
There is nothing inherent in Wayland that makes the it work better as opposed to X11. It is all about developer focus. If KDE developers spend the majority of their resources on the one thing it obviously gets better.
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by sprash 3y ago
Wayland is the downfall of the Linux Desktop and the FOSS desktop ecosystem in general. It is actively developer hostile, overly complicated and the technical merits are questionable at best. It has the wrong philosophy about absolutely eve
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by sprash 3y ago
The big unique selling point of MOD/XM/S3M is that it is essentially "open source" music. You can exactly see what the artist does and how it is done as well as access all used samples.
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by sprash 3y ago
The money is paid for Wayland to make sure the FOSS desktop will stay sub-3%. You obviously don't understand the concept of sabotage. (And yes literally millions of dollars have been invested into Wayland)
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by sprash 3y ago
EEE was a conspiracy theory as well until the Heloween documents were published. Also no Wayland does not work great for most Linux desktop users. Even not in reality. It works incredibly well at making the life for application developers e

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