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[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

It does work but if you’re using Wayland, it won’t. But one would be rather silly to expect an X11/Xlib tool to work without X11.

[+] FishFace@piefed.social -7 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I wouldn't expect it to work, so I wouldn't expect a meme to imply that Linux has great backwards compatibility, when things change somewhat rapidly in mainstream Linux, making it quite hard to maintain.

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

X11 isn’t Linux… Linux is excellent for backwards compatibility. Can’t say the same about userspace though.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social -4 points 4 months ago

You're right! And yet it doesn't really matter that much, does it?

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, it does. Not only for servers, but every single application that wasn't written for X11 specifically continues to just work. Which is the vast majority.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

Would you enjoy trying to explain this to your grandma or other stereotypically tech-un-savvy relative after you got her to install Ubuntu and something she was able to do before stopped working after an update?

You're interested in backwards compatibility on servers, and in backwards compatibility for a subset of applications. Cool. Convenient for you! Recognise that there's more to it than that, that when people meme about how awesome Linux is compared to Windows, focusing on servers and non-graphical applications isn't good enough.