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by vetinari 4y ago
And it was true at the time, thought the rebuttal would be "use SDL then" -- it did provide equivalent functionality, packaged into a single library. They were replaced not by new versions, but by new or even existing libraries&#x
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by vetinari 4y ago
My first linux machine was 386 with Trident 9000, running Slackware, so I'm pretty aware how linux hardware support developed over time. Maybe I was lucky in picking my hardware, but buggy basic functionality was a big exception (minor
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by vetinari 4y ago
Used to be; meanwhile, DirectDraw/DirectInput/DirectSound/DirectPlay/etc have been dead for quite a while.
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by vetinari 4y ago
We didn't have xauth either; our fun was xeyes.
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by vetinari 4y ago
The last time I had to use remote X11, it was to run Oracle's dbca. Everything else was possible to do in some other way, usually more comfortable. RDP does support integration of windows from multiple computers, in a way of RemoteAp
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by vetinari 4y ago
Async X11 was tried with xcb, and it failed. In the above linked video, this is illustrated in the "Bad IPC" part, with the example of gedit startup (gedit uses gtk and gtk uses xcb) and where it blocks.
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by vetinari 4y ago
OK, since we are splitting hair there, then most graphics controllers and gpus used are Intel. Also note, that users that use graphics cards are minority themselves.
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by vetinari 4y ago
The issue is being thought about (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request... ), and then there is a problem with changing the existing habits. As you can see with screen capture, even
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by vetinari 4y ago
It is dbus api, and is able to work cross-namespaces (i.e. flatpak containers too). There no harm in using it in non-flatpak apps, at least you will be ready if your app ends up in flatpak. Wrt global shortcuts, I see that there is some wor
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by vetinari 4y ago
I don't dispute that. My claim was, that both options you mention are broken, and for that one "working", "limping" would be a better term. Certainly not something you would architect a display system around.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Obviously it doesn't work if your workaround is disabling it. It is either bad hardware, or buggy driver. For the latter, it has to be some obscure hardware; popular hardware would have it fixed.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Microsoft releasing worse implementation for competing system? How surprising. /s The linux team client seems to be completely unmaintained and might be thrown away soon. If you need to use teams, use it in a browser.
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by vetinari 4y ago
1) no, he complains that X11 has a big core and then extensions. Extensions are fine, but they were unable to kick out parts of the core, because it is the core and something somewhere assumes it is there. So they had to maintain it, despit
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by vetinari 4y ago
There is one standard and single simple answer: xdg-desktop-portal with pipewire. Some compositors might have implemented their own private APIs, but that is not a standard by definition. Global shortcuts are a bit more thorny, exactly for
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by vetinari 4y ago
Having to disable compositing doesn't sound very reliable.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Wayland screen sharing works fine (in Chrome, Webex...). It doesn't work in Teams, but that's Microsoft's issue, since they didn't bother with implementing it.
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Of course, Wayland also has the problem that it's intentionally excluding some useful features that X had, like global hotkeys and screensharing Screensharing has been supported for some time already. Some apps support it, some d
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Most of the criticisms in this talk are solved with DRI3 Not true. > Also this guy makes money with a consultant agency that mainly works an Wayland and indirectly profits from shitting on X11. Maybe his employer works on Wayland be
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Even in its original release it supported different PPIs for different displays Yes and no. X11 screens could have different resolutions, color modes and pixel density, but windows could not span over multiple screens, or moved from on
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by vetinari 4y ago
> The majority of graphics cards are Nvidia The majority of graphics cards are Intel.
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by vetinari 4y ago
> I've seen commentary from people who have worked intimately on both protocols and implementations of both who consider Wayland to have the better architecture. For those interested in details: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by vetinari 4y ago
At our uni, we used DEC and had vxt2000 terminals. It worked fine, just like wayland does today. But it wasn't rock stable, or even remotely secure.
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by vetinari 4y ago
I'm getting a bit older and my memory might not serve me very well, but it used to be Eternal September, right?
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by vetinari 4y ago
Flatpak applications under Linux get their little sandboxes under ~/.var/app/$application-id where they can create whatever they want and the user can remove it from there when needed. Except for that, any other path that the
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by vetinari 4y ago
Similarly, GE does it through Link Warehouse ( https://www.linkwarehouse.com/ ), but it is geared towards industrial equipment. I haven't noticed any office stuff.
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by vetinari 4y ago
You forgot 3) Complain at different intensities, up to the shaming, about the unethical dark patterns employed by the software, no matter whether it is open source or not, to make authors of the software aware, that what they do is not welc
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by vetinari 4y ago
> very difficult to believe an interface with a full-screen app switcher, slide to unlock, and massive title bars and buttons compared to every other desktop UI is intended to be anything other than designed for tablets first. If you tak
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Win 10 and 11 have been given to me for free. Have been? You didn't have to have an already licensed Windows installation to upgrade? You _exchanged_ your older license for the newer one for free; you didn't get one extra for
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by vetinari 4y ago
It's incorrect then, on several fronts. Unity was supposed to be netbook interface, not a tablet one. Tablets (as we know them today, not tablet pc, which sucked) were not yet a thing then. Gnome 3 decided not to be a clone of Unity, b
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by vetinari 4y ago
I don't get why people think GNOME has a desire to be a tablet interface. It has not. It is just repeated ad nauseam by people, who never used it. Sure, it sucks at 14" 1376x768 displays, but 14" 1600x900 or fullhd -- you kno

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