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A comment on Microsoft's “Love” of Linux. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by gmueckl on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:54PM (#21600118)
That is only true on X. With the wayland protocol, the DE also becomes the display server. And because of barndoor sized holes in the standard wayland protocol, apps will either have enormous testing effort or be limited to a DE or two.
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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by japanoise on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:02PM (#21600195)
And that's why wayland will never replace X
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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by dependenttypes on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:12PM (#21600287)
Most programs use existing libraries like SDL, GTK, QT, etc, which handle wayland integration on their part.
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