You can disable them in the settings iirc.
You can use third party frontends like Nitter on Web or Fritter/Squawker on Android (available on F-Droid) to still follow accounts for info without the requirement of having an account anywhere. With the condition that viewing is the only thing you can do.
I left Twitter over an year ago and I use the frontends I mentioned to follow about 20 accounts for info on varied topics.
Always did on my hardware at least. When I was using Windows, my old laptop started lagging very much and it was becoming unbearable. I could not get a new one immediately. I got to know about Linux one day and installed it to try it out because there was not really anything else I could try.
I could not believe myself how buttery smooth my laptop became after that. 95% of the games that I used to play on Windows run with more performance on Linux.
You clearly do not know what you are talking about so I have no interest in giving more value to your already worthless comment. It is amusing that you must introduce the term "Wayland Apologist" as if that has any meaning in this sector.
The main issue here is not that some of the issues that are mentioned there are not genuine. They indeed are genuine and have mostly already been notified to the devs working on the protocols and the compositors. The issue here is how those are presented. By creating this almost cultish "battle between the 2 display servers" thing is not productive and demoralizes developers. Making criticism is one thing and productive but "boycotting" is not. And certainly not in the bad faith way the author of that article has done. I myself have both X and WL setups and I alternate between them frequently. I am not sitting here "boycotting" one display server in a prejudiced manner. This is Linux, not Windows or MacOS. Users are free to continue using Xorg and develop it according to them if they do not like something else. And similarly, they are free to use Wayland.
Amazing text! I was just commenting how ridiculous the article is this morning and now you have written a more lenghty criticism.
As for the Zoom bit. I will add my 2 years experience of using it on Wayland on Artix as well as Void Linux - I never used Gnome and it worked fine on Sway and River on my iGPU. In between a few updates I did face a few crashes of zoom when rendering on my nvidia gpu but it was still fine. I have not used zoom in over an year so I can't comment on how it is now.
As for "wayland does not work properly on nvidia." Solely nvidia is blame. They have been pushing out patches to bring out more support but it's just nvidia who can fix that in the end. While I would not want to assume what hardware the author uses. Wayland works like butter on my Intel hardware.
Great alternatives for xclip and many other X-tools are already in the market.
The VSync issue on wayland is genuine. Disabling it in-game does not affect anything because it is enforced by the compositor. VSync is an integral part of Wayland Compositioning (acc. to the wlroots dev) but a solution to automatically disable it in full screen applications, etc is down the pipeline and work is ongoing. I have not been following it but I think some fixes were already released, I could be wrong.
As for X11 Atoms: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41005297/x-to-wayland-what-about-atoms Just boils down to the application dev's willingness to port the app to Wayland. The author of the 'boycott wayland' article seems to just want wayland to implement Xorg 1:1 for it to not fail their stupid standard of what-should-be-boycotted. And at that point Wayland is not Wayland but Xorg.
Most of the arguments presented in the 'Boycott Wayland' article are either generic issues being worked upon by the devs or things that don't have much relevance but put down in a manner as if to almost fear-monger that Wayland is the spawn of the devil and must not be used at all.
I will highlight one thing many people tend to have a misconception of: There is no such thing as an unbiased source. The thoughts of every person in the world are a reflection of their material conditions. Hence whatever a person reports will always be biased. A source can, however, be true or false but will always be biased one way or another. Some people reply with "Oh yeah, I meant least biased source." There's no such spectrum, it's either biased or unbiased and an unbiased person would only be one who has had no past experiences on Earth whatsoever but even that is controversial.
What you can instead ask for is a reputable source which is truthful. But the dealbreaker here is that you will need to search for it. No one source will give you complete information always either. You will have to study multiple sources. That's what reasearch is. If research was as easy as just sticking to one reputable source then it would be severely flawed.
Some people in the other comments recommended Wikipedia as a good source. Wikipedia isn't really a good source but a good compilation of sources, but again, not always. I say you skip the article content itself on Wikipedia and scroll down to the Citations/References section and read those sources. That should be a starting point.
As for Marx. Just read Marx. My first paragraph here was written through a Marxist lens ironically. Some helpful links below if you get tired of Searching Wikipedia. (It's mostly Anti-Communist) https://marxists.org/ https://marx2mao.com/
It will certainly be a Mega-bite...
RTRedreovic
joined 1 year ago
The IOF should be destroyed, period.