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There are a ton of long standing security issues. Which is why they are working on wayland: X11 isn't possible to secure as bad security is part of how it works.
My desktop is not a smartphone where I download random shady apps from an app store. I don't need any of the "security" wayland offers. If I don't trust some software I simply won't apt install it.
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My 3840x2160 external monitor has a pixel density of approx. 275 ppi. IIRC it cost approx. $300, not exactly prohibitive.
This sounds like an interesting screen. Which is it, if I may ask?
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You don't even need a compositor. Just activate Force Full Composition Pipeline if you have an nvidia card. see: https://imgur.com/a/lDfObqw It's in the advanced settings. Silky smooth Xorg web browsing and video at no extra compositor cost.
Thank you so much for this! I've been looking for a solution in picom config for way, way too long.
Frankly I have no idea why it's not enabled by default.
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Something that isn't particularly good 12 years in will likely never be so. At 12 years in some really basic stuff is just now rolling in. In general the idea of natural progress is completely imaginary. The general nature of things is to get worse not better entropy always wins.
X isn't particularly good either, and even older ...
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Show stopper for Ubuntu was screen capture. So screen capture works today, and if they switched, if would be difficult only for the first few weeks, when Ubuntu is buggy anyway. But they didn't and the long-term consequences of delaying it will be felt across all linux distributions for years to come. So much for appeasing RH and it's fanbase.
I disagree, this happened before with pulseaudio, it was not ready and for years people would recommend to remove it, so the leason is not replace something that works now with something that is shiny but might work next year. I also think NVIDIA had a role in this default display issue, Ubuntu has to use something that actually works on all hardware combinations,competent users can install and try a Wayland implemen…
The forced PA brought some pain. but it forced swift improvement in audio drivers. Without it, we would still have half-buggy drivers that do not really work.
Regarding Nvidia: all distributions that switched to Wayland default switched that only for supported hardware, so Nvidia users are still getting X11. I don't expect Ubuntu doing it differently.
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X isn't particularly good either, and even older ...
It night not be great but it does many things Effectively and doesn't require each graphical environment to individually handle low level hardware details.
Wayland could have been executed better to ease adoption, no doubt. More than anything momentum is required, which we arguable are beginning to see.
The question today isn't X vs. Wayland. It is Wayland vs. Y. Whatever Y is.
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All major distros seem to have agreed on Flatpak/Freedesktop Portal dbus APIs. For eg, for screenshot : https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html... There are still apps using legacy gnome/kde specific APIs, but, from what I understand, in the future Flatpak APIs are becoming the defacto standard
These are dbus APIs though, not wayland protocol specifications that you can call with libwayland's RPC mechanism. On the one hand this means you can support both X11 and Wayland with a single API from a client perspective, on the other you have to use DBus, which is horrendous to use (especially from statically typed languages). It also doesn't seem to work on my XFCE/X11 desktop, which shows what fragmentation we h…
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What makes you think uinput is less capable? Ultimately everything that uses input uses uinput, it's the source of truth.
For the same reason that it can make sense to say that python is more powerful than C, even though you can obviously do more things with C than with python. Xdotool lets you send keystrokes to a particular window, even if it's not in focus. You can do that with ydotool if you also do some sway IPC, but it's not as convenient, and no one has made a higher-level tool, possibly because it would be a nightmare to make it…
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That's a shame, I enjoy playing with ML so having no CUDA available is a bit of a showstopper there. For graphics I'd like to switch to AMD, but right now you just can't buy their higher end consumer cards.
To be fair you can't buy any 3000 series Nvidia card either.
In this case I already have a 2080Ti, which gives my previous comment context. If I was starting from scratch then, well, I'd be stuffed either way :)
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> This post is a bit too ranty for its own good, but it has a valid point, and one that is unfortunately common in the open source community: because you have no monetary obligation to your "customers" (=users), there's not really a lot that forces you to maintain backwards compatibility. And yet, distros like Ubuntu are too conservative, because they are too careful not to break something. Their signalling is then c…
I don't know if everyone is fine with Apple making so many changes. I think it's because they have no choice, being stuck with whatever Apple decides. eg. for years you couldn't resize a window from the left edge and everybody was "fine" with it. When they actually bothered to implement it, it was astounding to think you couldn't do it before! As for me, I await each Apple release with trepidation and fear. Will my a…
It got really tiresome rebuilding my dev environments in particular with every new release. Butterfly keyboard, touch bar, and other hardware choices were additional hindrances. Infuriating design choices like doing away with 'Save As' were the last straw. I don't really care about UI improvements, to be honest. OSX Leopard was usable for everything I do in normal life.