• driveway@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Some old people just do not want to learn new things and will try to justify it however they can. Happens with Rust, happens with Wayland.

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      8 months ago

      Happens everywhere really, sometimes it’s justifiable sometimes its not. Its really weird when it happens on free software lol.

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      8 months ago

      This is not a case of old people. Wayland genuinely lacks features. People of all ages find it trash.

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        8 months ago

        It is designed to lack features. It has a purposefully limited scope. Bashing it for it’s goal is weird.

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            8 months ago

            Over complex software that does everything is potentially stupid. The fact x11 devs went to build Wayland. Its funny how those that build x11 can be critical of the software they build but users cannot. When software becomes a religion.

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          8 months ago

          Replacing something featurful with something minimal is silly. The replacement needs to solve the users problems at least as well as the previous solution did.

          Decomposing the solution into smaller simpler parts is fine, but you can’t just solve part of the problem and expect the users to be happy about it.

          Wayland’s biggest issue is that it was born out of developer frustration, rather than solving a user problem. As such, users have little reason to adopt it.

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            8 months ago

            It doesn’t and other software should and will fulfil those purposes. It has for many users and with a few years, will have for most. How do you think some distros run only on Wayland? What are they missing?

            It was actually created because of design issues in x11 that prevented certain solutions to modern problems. I think there was also certain security concerns. I did read a blog about this previously.

            No one spends their free time writing software for years out of frustration only. I gather you don’t make open source software…