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[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago

Let Wayland not destroy everything and then have other people fix the damage it caused.

Here I stopped reading. This can't be more then a salty bullshit post with nothing than unfair assumptions.

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

The only one that really might have some merit is the argument about portability.

[-] hunger@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Small communities have a hard time staying up to date. X11 was ported decades ago, when non Linux OSes had more mind share and commercial backing. I doubt anyone could port X11 if that was the new thing mainly developed on Linux today.

[-] jeansibelius@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This guy don't even understand what Wayland is, but feels comfortable to judge it.

[-] Cralder@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

My favorite part is where he admits to being mad without even knowing what Wayland is.

Edit: When I wrote the above, I didn't really realize what Wayland even was, I just noticed that some distributions (like Fedora) started pushing it onto me and things didn't work properly there.

[-] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Who are these strange anti Wayland people?

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

as an NVIDIA user myself, I identify myself more as anti-NVIDIA than anti-Wayland

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I get that. Nvidia is a crappy company.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the uneducated FUD article again.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

someone jonesing for their daily Windows 11 advertising dosage

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Doesn't it get tiring to create new accounts only to post the same stuff time and time again, only to get it downvoted, removed, and banned time and time again? What do you get out of it? Do you masturbate to the comment sections?

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This OUTDATED article gets posted all the time. The full story is the guy is a massive FreeBSD fan so he is trying to convince more people to keep on using Xorg because he wants to make sure it isn't abandoned. Reason for that being that Wayland is built with Linux in mind and would not work under FreeBSD without a lot of effort bwing put in as it uses some Linux-specific components or libraries.

Edit: Decided to write a response because I'm tired of this ancient and incorrect article being reposted. Please read it, correct any mistakes in the comments, etc. Thank you.

[-] hunger@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Yes, wayland by design does not let random applications grab events intended for other applications nor does it let random applications take screenshots at any point in time showing other applications screens. This requires applications to do screen sharing differently, and it indeed breaks random applications sending events to random other applications. That is basically all you wail about and an absolutely necessary property of any sensible system and it is very embarrassing that it took so long to get this.

[-] brunofin@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boycott you instead, dinosaur.

Isn't Linux about freedom? Fucking pick a distro that uses X11 you like and keep X11, or build your own or some crap like that.

[-] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

what's up with this? I see this school of thought bandied around quite a bit recently. wayland... it's a protocol. do they hate tcp/ip too? can they boycott that instead?

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Imagine taking your unresolved childhood trauma out on Wayland.

And with a throwaway account no less.

[-] Cralder@feddit.nu 8 points 1 year ago

This gets posted like once per week and this is inaccurate as shit.

"Wayland is bad, it can't run xorg programs"

Ok but there is an exact copy of the program that is made for Wayland. It's the same argument that Windows users use to discredit Linux .

"Linux is bad because it can't run programs that were made for Windows"

[-] nobloat@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Had me at "References >> 5 years old Chris Titus Tech YouTube video"

[-] rah@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Ignorant fool.

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