• PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The only proper thing to do was to continue X development. It just needed proper funding and for people to quit battling over licences. Throwing it all out and replacing it with something not even based around network displays was madness. Now we have this hodgepodge of kluges taped together to try and barely imitate what we once had. It’s an embarrassing disgrace.

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      1 year ago

      The “just” there is doing a lot of work considering the devs themselves disagreed. Sorry, but, I’m going to trust their judgement.

      …also the whole networked displays themselves was what caused a lot of problems, according to the devs. Using it for a modern display stack was like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Terminals have fallen out of favor ages ago, and personal computing devices today favour things like high responsiveness, clean images, and high refresh rates instead. And we got enough computing power to just stream a video stream directly if that’s needed now.

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              1 year ago

              The spec was the problem, it was awful, again, none of the devs agree with you. The people who deal with this and are experienced with it ALLL chose to move to Wayland development.

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                It was more attrition by age. New devs came in and didn’t fully understand it. The XFree86 vs Xorg war only made that problem worse. Those who came later didn’t understand it well enough to continue supporting it. Now you’ve got young devs not understanding why things are important to its design, and of course, they want to rip it all up and start over. They haven’t yet learned the lessons of what made the design choices important.

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                  Don’t you think that if NOBODY understands it and is willing to support it… maybe it’s just fucked?

                  There are no actual issues going on with wayland development, you’re just being a crybaby about network transparency. It’s not even not there, you just don’t like that it was implemented later…

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                    1 year ago

                    No, I think the young upstarts didn’t bother to learn. They wanted their own toy. Damn right I don’t like it was added later. It should have been the first thing! Period! Faster boot times, games, and other toys don’t matter. FULL backwards compatibility, stability are all that matters. Pretty doesn’t matter.