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[arQon]

That looks almost ideal, frankly: a trivial improvement in the majority of cases, a trivial degradation in a tiny majority, and an overwhelming improvement...

[arQon]

Wow. If you really think it's an "unknown" reason, you've never worked in this industry. Or any industry, for that matter.

Do you...

[arQon]

oof. There's a lot to unpack here...



Wayland was supposed to be a replacement for X. Claiming that pieces are suddenly "out...

[arQon]

It's not a hard problem, at all. I've written windowing systems from scratch in about as week (albeit simpler ones, certainly) as have plenty of other...

[arQon]

I just noticed that the article you linked (from 8 years ago, and quite possibly where I got the timeframe from) has this little gem in it:
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[arQon]

JFC - they're STILL coloring the newbtastic WASD keys?! (or "The arrow keys of 2001", if you prefer). That's just embarrassing, even for a machine...

[arQon]

Many thanks. So, generic CADT basically - and, as you say, only RH and Intel are allowed to do that.

So, 13 years and counting to write a...

[arQon]

It's been a long time since I worked with FreeType, but IIRC the only patent hassle remaining even back then was ?ClearType?, i.e. MS's sub-pixel AA....

[arQon]

Then tough cookies, because everyone is free to call you out on for your BS.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof", it's...

[arQon]

I meant "8 years since Mir was started" rather than "8 years since Wayland was", but thanks anyway: I didn't realise it had been that...

[arQon]

I think it's fair to say they LOST a lot of money on it, but I wouldn't say it was WASTED - a small distinction, perhaps, but an important one.
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[arQon]

No, 100% of the "ill will towards gnome3" came from the GNOME devs pretending that dumpster fire was SUITABLE for release in the first place...

[arQon]

It does if you've got the money to do it - and Intel does.

The important part is that they DON'T have the money to buy TSMC (and to buy off...

[arQon]

Honestly, that's almost exactly the story behind FSAA. ...

[arQon]

I can't speak for all the (apparently pretty poor) "defensive" code in there, but you you only need a handful of places that assume pages are...

[arQon]

I don't know enough to agree or disagree with that, but I don't think anyone sane can claim with a straight face that Linux's RAM-pressure handling isn't...

[arQon]

I've had basically zero crashes in about a decade of VBox - UNTIL the current 6.1 branch, at which point guests would crash on suspend.

They...

[arQon]

ah. So in other words,

> The argument that randr can "break your desktop" is an enormous crock of bovine excrement, and [snip]...

[arQon]

ISTR that the last time some clown tried to add threading to nautilus, they literally used NO sync objects, at all. Really.
So unless you want nautilus...

[arQon]

No, this is me pointing out that a feature of X11 that *is required* is unavailable in Wayland; that Wayland is inherently incapable of supporting it...