So the good thing about Linux distros switching to Wayland long before Wayland is remotely ready is that contact with real-world users will make the "pain points" visible so they can be fixed.
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@gsuberland @mcc the majority of my grievances with wayland have had bugs open for years and people pleading for them to be fixed
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@gsuberland @mcc the majority of my grievances with wayland have had bugs open for years and people pleading for them to be fixed
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@gsuberland @mcc the majority of my grievances with wayland have had bugs open for years and people pleading for them to be fixed
@gsuberland @mcc and "actually the Philosophers created a protocol for this (which nothing implements), therefore this is not a problem" is a very common reply by wayland apologists when people complain about wayland problems
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@gsuberland @mcc and "actually the Philosophers created a protocol for this (which nothing implements), therefore this is not a problem" is a very common reply by wayland apologists when people complain about wayland problems
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@gsuberland @mcc maybe there's apathy but it's not for a lack of awareness on the part of the maintainers
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@gsuberland if you don't have an opinion don't express one
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@not2b @mcc They weren't really fixable, either, like at a protocol level, and all of the extensions and workarounds that modern X software was using ended up fully degrading the X11 experience to the extent that there wasn't even any advantage to trying to work with it anymore.
But there were also 10 major versions of X that came before X11, and X itself was a successor to W, so one would hope that X would have learned its lessons by then, too.
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@gsuberland @mcc they get reported, they just get fixed at a glacial pace, if they gets fixed at all.
It's funny because it's true.
By which I mean: there are not, actually, any magical infinite funds to support desktop Linux, because that has no commercial value whatsoever, but it's 100% free to shit on people who are volunteering their time to try to make things better as best they can. You can earn valuable Mastodon Snark Points for it, which you can cash in for fuck all in actually making things better.
Or you could, you know, not so that.
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It's funny because it's true.
By which I mean: there are not, actually, any magical infinite funds to support desktop Linux, because that has no commercial value whatsoever, but it's 100% free to shit on people who are volunteering their time to try to make things better as best they can. You can earn valuable Mastodon Snark Points for it, which you can cash in for fuck all in actually making things better.
Or you could, you know, not so that.
@mattdm @aeva @gsuberland Fuck off. We need our computers to work and currently they do not. The distros made a decision which brought our computers from a working to a nonworking state. That was the right decision from the project's perspective but it causes problems for the users and the projects knew that when they made the decision. If someone wants me to contribute code to make things better I can potentially do that but if you want me to pretend to be happy I will not
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It's funny because it's true.
By which I mean: there are not, actually, any magical infinite funds to support desktop Linux, because that has no commercial value whatsoever, but it's 100% free to shit on people who are volunteering their time to try to make things better as best they can. You can earn valuable Mastodon Snark Points for it, which you can cash in for fuck all in actually making things better.
Or you could, you know, not so that.
@mattdm @gsuberland @mcc buddy we are talking about problems we're actively experiencing that we can't make any headway on and you are the one who is kicking people while they're down
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@mattdm @aeva @gsuberland Fuck off. We need our computers to work and currently they do not. The distros made a decision which brought our computers from a working to a nonworking state. That was the right decision from the project's perspective but it causes problems for the users and the projects knew that when they made the decision. If someone wants me to contribute code to make things better I can potentially do that but if you want me to pretend to be happy I will not
The people who sell computers don't have a great incentive to make them "work". They just need to Windows well enough. If you want that, that's for sale. If you don't, well, there's no commercial interest in anything else. So,we have to do what we can. The people working on it know _to the breaking point of their souls_ that it isn't perfect.
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The people who sell computers don't have a great incentive to make them "work". They just need to Windows well enough. If you want that, that's for sale. If you don't, well, there's no commercial interest in anything else. So,we have to do what we can. The people working on it know _to the breaking point of their souls_ that it isn't perfect.
@mattdm @aeva @gsuberland In fact the computer I purchased specifically advertised support for Ubuntu Linux. That was one of the reasons I purchased it.
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@mattdm @aeva @gsuberland Fuck off. We need our computers to work and currently they do not. The distros made a decision which brought our computers from a working to a nonworking state. That was the right decision from the project's perspective but it causes problems for the users and the projects knew that when they made the decision. If someone wants me to contribute code to make things better I can potentially do that but if you want me to pretend to be happy I will not
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What was the alternative though? The Xorg maintainers were saying that nope, they're not going to continue developing it any longer. What should distros have done? -
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@mcc @mattdm @aeva @gsuberland
What was the alternative though? The Xorg maintainers were saying that nope, they're not going to continue developing it any longer. What should distros have done?@jannem @mcc @mattdm @aeva @gsuberland my alternative so far has been simply to stick with X sessions because any of the issues X has I've already worked around and while it's not as nice at it could be at least I can get my work done and the behavior has been predictable for 10+years now that the horde of CADT developers have moved to Wayland. But I understand that not everybody has the luxury to make the choices I've made.
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@mcc one thing i noticed while trying to find a solution to my most recent injury is there's been bugs open for it for *years*
@aeva @mcc I'm pretty sure awesomewm was using wayland and I was using it 10 to 15 years ago. It's wild to me I am now hearing about major DE switchint to it, dropping X11 support and lot of big issue like "wayland have zero standard for screencapture". I do screenshot every week, if not every day. Sharing your screen in visioconference is like a major need at dayjob.
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