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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI never understood why Valve insisted on writing steam directly against the X api, rather than using a toolkit. It's going to cause them pain whatever happens with wayland and mir now.
they'll prob rewrite against SDL2 since they hired the main dev of itAll opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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I think that nowdays many companies plan to stay with X no matter what will happen with Wayland and Mir, but when Wayland will start to show the big advantages against X, many people will change their mind.
Wayland is asyncronous by design, no blocking (only the client that suffers a problem stop to rendering), and all the others advantages that all know by the previous articles.
Yestarday I was reading on Mertin's blog (Kwin mainteiner) that with wayland he can debug Kwin inside the development session, instead collect debug's info by a different vt process. He said that this issue boring him by years.
That surprise me a lot. Probably, during the wayland adoption process, we will discover many more advantages that are not obvious just reading the architecture.
About Valve, why stay on X if you have a better choice?
When will be avaiable the binary blobs for Wayland, if you care about performance, if you care about a "every-frame-is-perfect" (each frame have a timestamp), if you care about a modern input system, if you care about an asyncronous display server, if you care about avoiding stupid bottleneck, why still stay on X if you have a so valid alternative?
Probably, even a legacy program can run better on xwayland than X, at the end of the day. :-)
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostValve doesnt have any choice but to stick with X. If they move to Wayland they screw Canonical. If they move to Mir they screw everyone else. What's unfortunate is that if Mir never existed this wouldnt be an issue at all. There is already too much fragmentation. What Mir adds pushes it past a tipping point. Canonical should be forced to die. (yes, a.k.a murdered.)
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Originally posted by dee. View PostNo it does not have to. It can just support Wayland because why support a one-distro solution...
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Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View PostYou know, "Ubuntu is our favorite version of Linux", and SDL-developer is Valve employee, so...
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Originally posted by energyman View PostAMD supports RHEL and SLES and SLED.
Those are the distributions the important customers are using.
Ubuntu is just an afterthought.
Since neither RHEL nor SLES/SLED will use MIR.....
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Originally posted by energyman View PostAMD supports RHEL and SLES and SLED.
Those are the distributions the important customers are using.
Ubuntu is just an afterthought.
Originally posted by energyman View PostSince neither RHEL nor SLES/SLED will use MIR.....
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