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aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

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Re: [SOLVED] What is your view on major distros dropping X11 and requiring Wayland?

I also don’t like many of the “innovations” in Linux, already implemented and planned.
But imagine our life if the majority of humanity accepted the Amish point of view.
We probably wouldn’t have the pleasure of communicating on the forum now, and there wouldn’t be any computers themselves.

All evolution is completely GMO.

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stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

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Re: [SOLVED] What is your view on major distros dropping X11 and requiring Wayland?

Dropping X11 for wayland is just another drop in the bucket called idiocracy

If sharks from a transnational company called Red Hat decided this way, it does not mean that others will do the same.

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: [SOLVED] What is your view on major distros dropping X11 and requiring Wayland?

GMOs should be avoided in products that directly effect the body, such as lotions, food, shampoo, water, deodorant.

As  for technology, can't avoid it lol.

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stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

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Re: [SOLVED] What is your view on major distros dropping X11 and requiring Wayland?

We're coming up on 20 years since David Dawes announced the changes to the XFree86(TM) license. I never did fully understand what went on behind the scenes that led him to make that change, but I remember everyone being tremendously relieved when control reverted to X.org. I have to think that in retrospect, there was some serious irony in some of the reactions, such as this post, the top rated response to Slashdot's report on Mandrake dropping XFree86:

Its nice to see the XFree86.org folks making the transition to the freedesktop.org smoother by making themselves irrelevent to users. Nice going guys!

Yeah... hurray for those nice folks over at freedesktop.org... There are some other howlers in that thread:

Just look at the serial and parallel ports at the back of your computer. Once something is widely used it will probably outlive us.

Will we never be free of those pesky serial and parallel ports? Honestly, I think it would be great if my PC still had those!

dimonic

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Registered: 2018-07-29

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Re: [SOLVED] What is your view on major distros dropping X11 and requiring Wayland?

I know this is a dormant thread, but it just occurred to me that open source permits development of projects that would be s**tcanned in the purely commercial world for both good and bad reasons.

Wayland would have been killed by the 2nd or 3rd CEO to take the helm after the first few release failures, however, many other excellent projects would likely also have been killed off or not been attempted. However, I think it is safe to say that any project developed with an eye to either popularise, or commercialise linux, is unfortunately also bad for Linux as we know it. I used to really like Gnome - but then someone with "vision" took over and dumbed it down so simpletons would use it (and made it look more like windows) - news flash - instead of windows users adopting it, windows changed into something else, and gnome is still chasing that ghost.

The best projects have always been a developer scratching their own itch. Not someone "with a vision" for the OS as a whole.