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[jacob]

Brand identity is IMPORTANT. Besides, there was plenty wrong with the old kernel panic dumps, chiefly that they are absolutely useless to anyone who is...

[jacob]

You know what the complete saying is?

Jack of all trades, master of none, is often better than master of one....

[jacob]

It used to be a separate project called gummiboot and became abandonware until the systemd project picked it up....

[jacob]

The truth that many people will rather die than admit it is that there are many things that Windows got right, and that being "more like windows"...

[jacob]

It's a good name. Everyone immediately knows what it means. "Color modular" would be an anti-feature here....

[jacob]

There's a noticeable performance improvement when accessing from Australia too

[jacob]

No one says it's illegitimate, what the developers are saying is that they will no longer be putting in the effort and expense to support it, since it...

[jacob]

It's not semantics, if you are pointing out a problem it's important to know where that problem is. There is nothing inherently wrong with mutter,...

[jacob]

There is more to Wayland than a protocol spec. The whole architecture was designed by Xorg developers, using on principles and design decisions based...

[jacob]

That's a gnome problem, not a wayland problem. Any bug in a gnome extension can kill the whole gnome shell. It does it on X11 too. Wayland prevents something...

[jacob]

IMHO Devuan will have no choice but to drop it as well. The bottom line is that by 2025 Xorg is going EOL. Distros that still want to use it as their...

[jacob]

People who spend their time and money working on wayland and those who used to maintain xorg are one and the same. What some people still apparently don't...

[jacob]

Probably, yes....

[jacob]

Honestly I can't fathom why some Linux users still insist on buying Nvidia....

[jacob]

I hope they won't pay any attention to them. Nvidia-related bug reports should be directed to Nvidia....

[jacob]

Now what I really expect to happen:

It's 2050. Holographic displays are getting commonplace. MacOS and Windows have announced that their...

[jacob]

ApplicationWindow is part of GTK which is what GNOME is built on. It's the platform....

[jacob]

It doesn't expect you to care about that. Create an ApplicationWindow and voila, it's there complete with decorations and all the bells and whistles....

[jacob]

What would be the point, if less and less people use those machines anyway?...

[jacob]

The "too hard to maintain" problem with X11, as I understand it, stems from the fact that it was designed based on assumptions that are at odds...