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I haven't yet seen any compelling reason to move off of X11. It's been years since I've checked - what's the current state of the art ?
> what's the current state of the art ? Wayland is going to make 2024 the year of Linux on the Desktop! Any day now...
Jokes aside if you can avoid anti-cheats (rootkits) DXVK makes a lot of Windows workflows very accessible on Linux.
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> what's the current state of the art ? Wayland is going to make 2024 the year of Linux on the Desktop! Any day now...
I thought it was already the year of Linux on the Desktop?? Jokes aside if you can avoid anti-cheats (rootkits) DXVK makes a lot of Windows workflows very accessible on Linux.
Okay, but X11 is deprecated. Is there a modern version?
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> what's the current state of the art ? Wayland is going to make 2024 the year of Linux on the Desktop! Any day now...
I thought it was already the year of Linux on the Desktop?? Jokes aside if you can avoid anti-cheats (rootkits) DXVK makes a lot of Windows workflows very accessible on Linux.
And it has achieved that with X11.
Once you have GPU server side encoding and client GPU decoding all working correctly with NVENC end to end there is nothing like it in terms of speed and performance for remote work. With a reasonable ping latency like 20-30ms and quality link a user on a cheap gaming laptop connected to a decent beefy server with the GPU encoding working can perceive the remote browser window as faster than their local browser.
Okay, but X11 is deprecated. Is there a modern version?
Oh god, has the "rewrite it in rust" crowd finally learned about wayland?
Though I have no problem with anything being rewritten in rust. It's usually just as fast, and more importantly, freaking modern. Look at `lsd` or `ripgrep`
Python 81.7%
Cython 14.9%
Shell 1.1%
Roff 0.9%
Rich Text Format 0.7%
C++ 0.2%
Other 0.5%
Okay, but X11 is deprecated. Is there a modern version?
Specifically, how -- again, in LINUX-LAND -- a whole bunch of people decided, "nah, we're going to go ahead and break the HELL OUT OF backwards compatibility this time, even though we pretty much never do this."
Okay, but X11 is deprecated. Is there a modern version?
I don't think the existence of Wayland means X11 is deprecated. Lots of people (including myself) would prefer the perfectly working X11 than the feature-incomplete backward-incompatible "modern" wayland
(Which I suppose means that Wayland has matured a lot..finally, but still)
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I don't think the existence of Wayland means X11 is deprecated. Lots of people (including myself) would prefer the perfectly working X11 than the feature-incomplete backward-incompatible "modern" wayland
It's deprecated by the people who wrote it, and AFAIK no-one else has taken up the task of maintaining it. Doesn't mean you can't use it (I still use it still, thanks to said breakage), but it's not exactly thriving.
Shoutout to Openbox