| ▲ | codeflo 3 hours ago |
| Nothing recent made me feel quite as old and out of the loop more as the slowness with which I realized that this is about x.com (Twitter), not x.org (the windowing system). |
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| ▲ | kushalpandya 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That too would very likely be seen as deeply political. |
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| ▲ | mindslight 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | After reading about Wayland for 10 (?) years and thinking it was some huge deal, I finally took the leap as I was redoing my window manager anyway and it was quite easy (at least on NixOS). Heck virt-viewer (one of my main apps) is still running under Xwayland because the performance seems better. | | |
| ▲ | Gare 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 10 years ago Wayland was in much worse state. It started being good in the last few years, though some features are still lacking. | | |
| ▲ | mindslight an hour ago | parent [-] | | Oh for sure. The point is the way I hear it talked about even today is as if it's going to be really great at some point in the future, but involves a lot of off-the-beaten-path tinkering if you want to use it right now. But there really wasn't much tinkering! Honestly with "AI" helping a lot of the boring configuration tedium, I feel like I might finally reach the stage where I like my desktop environment config. |
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| ▲ | kmeisthax 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The only reason why I'm not running Wayland on my Framework laptop is that there's some really weird bug where it hardlocks the system, and after I force-reboot it, the audio chip doesn't come back up unless I drain or unplug the battery. X11 doesn't have this issue. Of course, this was also several years ago, and it's possible the bug has been fixed. Maybe I should try Wayland again. |
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| ▲ | jerlam 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Whenever I see X used, I wonder if the author will return to replace the variable with the actual name. |
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| ▲ | hasley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was thinking of X11 as well, but did not feel old - until I read your text. ;) |
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| ▲ | a_paddy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My favourite microblogging platform is way.land |
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| ▲ | cobbaut an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface". |
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| ▲ | blurbleblurble 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You're aging well |
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| ▲ | noosphr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Probably more reasonable. I'm not sure why xorg exists if their sole purpose is to kill x. As per the many posts by their developers. |
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| ▲ | raverbashing 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It would be ironic if Xorg launched a twitter competitor using a custom update protocol (an X extension) over the network and TCL | | |
| ▲ | mghackerlady 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | knowing how xorg currently operates (it doesn't, it has a successor) it'd be a wayland protocol negotiated over dbus and mainly opposed by the GNOME people |
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| ▲ | testfoobar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I remember being dazzled by Xeyes. |
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| ▲ | markkitti 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I had the exact same experience. |
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| ▲ | beepbooptheory 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I get really really tired at the back and forth with Wayland and all that, but I would put up with reading rants about windowing systems everyday if it meant I never had to think about this X again. |
