Re: Wayland Is Coming

On Tue, 14 May 2024 00:49:21 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 13 May 2024 08:05:38 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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What Wayland does isn't complicated so why is it
still in development after 15 years?

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Why, were you working on something that was ready to go as an X11
replacement 15 years ago?

You've already used that fallacy. Don't dig your hole even deeper.

The GPU is superfluous on a lot of PCs that only get used for office
work, so what?

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Not any more. It’s an integral part of video acceleration in modern GUIs
now.

Whooooooosh.....

Actually, a lot of them switched to XCB.

 
I've used X for years and had to go and google XCB.

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Really? That tells me maybe more than I wish to know.

Ever heard of xview, motif and openwin?

It was an analogy.

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Pro tip: argument by analogy ≠ argument by facts.

Translation: I'm an aspie who doesn't understand analogy.