Originally posted by schmidtbag
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Users are screwed either way, differently but at least the same magnitude either way. This therefore cancels out and is irrelevant.
And I'm already giving a discount on this as I still have a strong suspicion that fracturing the usebase, removing any kind of pressure you could have on NVIDIA, and forcing people with NVIDIA to use ONLY gnome is bad for everyone and in the long run much worse than just giving the finger to NVIDIA once more.
Only thing left is validating NVIDIA, which is wrong.
1. Nvidia will not comply, regardless of how much pressure you put on them.
Macs are definitely a larger marketshare than desktop Linux, and Nvidia seemed a little too willing to give it up to hold onto their principles.
2. If the Wayland devs held their ground, they'd be left behind and would lose traction.
3. By catering to Nvidia's laziness, the Wayland devs get more users access, but in turn they tarnish what makes Wayland "pure" and they encourage Nvidia's unacceptable activities (or lack thereof).
This move does not add more developer base on Wayland by any means, it's RedHat having support for this stuff only on their own DE.
But GNOME is part of a product sold for money (actually support contracts, whatever), so yeah for them it matters to have broader userbase. Everyone else didn't care and is fine with not giving a fuck.
You are seeing things that don't exist here. It's not "wayland developers have decided", it's RedHat's own paid developer(s) that do what the company thinks is in their own best interest.
None of this is good. It's all terrible and there's nothing we can do about it. So, since Nvidia's negligence is indefinite and unwavering, what else can be done without hurting the progress of Wayland?
The way I see it, as long as this patch can be removed in the future without causing regressions, I think it's the best course of action for the sake of Wayland and Nvidia users, despite the fact it shouldn't have been made.
The point here is that its presence NOW weakens Linux/Wayland position considerably in putting pressure on NVIDIA to actually fix their shit or create a better alternative for GBM.
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