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Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance] (www.xda-developers.com)
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[-] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago

That should be:

People ~~use~~ used windows because it ~~has~~ had decades of backwards compatibility sort of.

Nowadays: it has current compatibility sort of.

Microsoft is a mess now, so it's no surprise that their current Windows version is also a mess.

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