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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elon hates Wayland

Prove me wrong

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

I think, it's more simple: dude is literally the head of xcom, and his only major competitor is an obvious reptilian.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish people on Odysee wouldn't be so absolutely brain dead, it's generally a pretty nice platform, but the comment section is always full of garbage

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I basically gave up on the odysee comment section. I think would be nice if there was a mastodon/lemmy instance (or similar) that automatically creates post for new videos so that there would be a moderated comment section with more sane users

[–] Jagger@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not an instance but maybe a bot

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

A separate instance would allow for separate users/communities per channel which would also lessen the load on other (smaller) instances

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honestly, I've only ever had problems with Wayland so far. So many times when I look up the issue tracker for a software I'm having issues with, the solution is always "switch to a DE that uses Xorg."

I get that it's not a mature software yet, but neither should people be pushing to use it until it is.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's called a paradox, it'll never be mature software if people don't move to it so edge cases can be found and fixed.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not here. This is not linux desktop share where every actor is an independent agent and all options are viable. Xorg is developed by the same people doing Wayland, and they decided Xorg is dead and will only receive security updates. I agree that Wayland compatibility is still not fully mature. But unfortunately for all those devs the upgrade window is moving fast and eventually their software will be left behind unless they change to Wayland. At this point Xorg is not even the default anymore.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I fully expect people to keep using a broken Xorg, not move into wayland, and not fork and keep it updated.

But the devs are free to do whatever they want. No opinions there. I wouldn't want to maintain Xorg either.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Totally, nothing in Linux land ever truly dies. Someone, somewhere will surely fork it once it is never updated anymore. But I wouldn't want to be that person either.

If somebody was willing to do this, xorg would still be maintained.

xorg is actually legitimately so terrible to work on that nobody is interested in doing this who actually knows how xorg works.

[–] Devorlon@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aside from sway, I'm trying to think of a DE that doesn't support Xorg.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hyprland? Also cosmic technically

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Neither is sway

Neither is sway. If I understand correctly they're both WMs, unless you meant something else.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Here, switch to this software! Except it doesn't support half of the features of the old one and it never will. Why? Uhhhh idk security or something. What was that? Will we add a way to securely allow these things? Lol no"

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What features are you talking about?

People say this all the time but can never give any actual examples.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Global keyboard shortcuts, copy-paste, window position save/restore, screen recording, probably a few others I'm forgetting. I know some compositors implement these, but they aren't part of the Wayland standard so it's a bit hit-or-miss afaik.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624

^ global shortcuts was moved to portals (as it should be, portals are a much more sane way of handling this) but is in pretty much all compositors (except wlroots, but that's also being worked on and not in won'tfix)

I don't know what you're talking about with copy-paste, that has worked for a millenia

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

^ window positioning (although still being worked on, definitely not in the category of won'tfix)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/124

^ screencopy (screen recording)

Literally none of these things are as described won'tfix for security reasons. Also, wayland is a core set of protocols, you're meant to use the ext block for things that aren't essential for basic functioning (such as screenshotting), that doesn't mean they don't work or aren't implemented properly, they're done separately because they AREN'T core to functioning, there are certain compositors that don't want the ability to take screenshots, for example.

None of those were actually true, can you list an actual example?

Seems like FUD to me.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I really don't get what people are talking about, I've been using wayland basically exclusively since 2022 and I haven't had any difficult to fix problems. For screensharing in the few things that don't support the portal I just use OBS' virtual webcam and everything else has just worked perfectly, or at least with way less issues than I ever had with X

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Until can remote session over ssh and restart gnome-shell without losing session, wayland not even option.

[–] Bonje@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If you think this is a YouTube frontend, it's not. It's a different video streaming platform called Odysee (technically the platform is called LBRY, but Odysee is the main frontend for it)

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

It's just the default website with stuff in the middle cut out

[–] sag@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

It's Odysee