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Re:X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach by catblast on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:59AM (#22737568)
> I believe this mentality is part of the reason it never seems to get any better.

Or maybe it’s that authoring and supporting drivers for actual hardware is tremendous effort that is mostly thankless.

Even Microsoft can’t get something much better and they literally have billions they need to throw at it.

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Re:X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:14AM (#22737692)
> Or maybe it’s that authoring and supporting drivers for actual hardware is tremendous effort that is mostly thankless.

Oh, if only drivers were the only part of Linux Desktop that was broken...

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