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[kpedersen]

Gosh I remember Xorg vs Xsun in the Solaris days.

At least Wayland is relatively new vs some of these ancient arguments....

[kpedersen]

With the introduction of systemd. Almost all Linux distros are pretty identical these days. I think it is quite nostalgic to hear a good old "distro...

[kpedersen]

Don't many of them get star struck and just accept any code from a large corporation?

I feel the open-source community could have weaponized...

[kpedersen]

The joys of proprietary development. All fun and secret behind closed doors....

[kpedersen]

700mb is absurd! There are desktop systems requiring a 10th of that and with at least double the functionality.

Even the Windows NT 4.x shell...

[kpedersen]

What? And spend the rest of the project budget creating bindings between them and native C++ for the rest of the engine? No thanks!...

[kpedersen]

I am sure there are many reasons. One could simply be that Xorg is currently going quite strong so Xweston isn't really needed. However this could change...

[kpedersen]

Agree completely.
This comes pretty close. https://github.com/ackalker/Xweston

Currently more of a *hack* than anything but if people...

[kpedersen]

I like this one. I do hope it was a strong contender back in the day.

# apt-get install fuck-headers

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[kpedersen]

Absolutely, Though I don't believe it will be able to compete with the others. Especially with indies. We evaluated it for one of our own projects and...

[kpedersen]

Yep. Its great. Because of this, I haven't had to personally buy a new computer for almost 20 years. Not to mention the 2-3 mark is the sweet spot in...

[kpedersen]

Web browsers already do much more than they should do. Firefox absolutely spams you with their "services" like sync and Firefox monitor. Why...

[kpedersen]

He got an upgrade. He became SFTP and has a number of benefits.

... but Firefox doesn't support that. Quite how they justified removing a...

[kpedersen]

Well in that case it is decreasing. It was 11% the month before

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_...rver&period=89...

[kpedersen]

I don't disagree but back in the 90's you could almost swap out word for word in your statement "Linux" with "Windows". We were told...

[kpedersen]

It is entirely because I don't just think of Linux. But instead of all UNIX-like platforms. Xorg did a great job normalizing between them. I am not yet...

[kpedersen]

Well kind of, it distributed emulators running DOS. I would be very much more impressed if it still maintained Windows 95-98 era games (which even today...

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No, at that point we were discussing non-Linux platforms. Of course Ubuntu (as a Linux distro) is going to (finally) use a Linux-centric display system....

[kpedersen]

This will be very interesting to see what they succeed with here. To be honest it could also have far reaching consequences with what the BSDs do if Wayland...

[kpedersen]

I refuse to engage with DRM so none of my Windows installs are "genuine". They still BSOD though ...