Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by pwdisswordfish6 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:11AM
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> And people wonder why Linux isn't popular outside of industry and hobbyists
"Linux"? We're discussing a category that includes Gmail UI changes. Is Gmail not popular?
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:20AM
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Wine was actually pretty damned good even before Valve got involved. I remember playing Half-Life with Wine in the early aughties.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by throwaways885 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:52AM
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I think that's fair, but they have done a good job of bringing much of the industry on board, rather than just being an esoteric hobbyist project.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:59AM
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I didn't mean to imply that Valve's contributions have not been significant in improving the situation with Wine, only that unlike the other examples Wine was already good before the involvement of a wealthy company.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by throwaways885 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:22AM
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Wine was a great technical achievement, but I remember it taking me hours crawling through WineDB and reading config guides to get most games working. Even for someone in the know, it was very impractical compared to clicking "Play" in Steam. That user experience makes all the difference.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by secondcoming on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:24AM
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> because the community itself has no discipline to see things through
Maybe discipline is a problem, but time, money and access to information is too.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by boudin on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:02PM
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What does it even mean?
Communities build what they need for their usecase and in this regard it's highly successful. It might not be your usecase but then, you can decide to create your own community and build it or look somewhere else.
But it's not because something do not work for you that it's not successful.
All the successful projects Linux users like to talk about nowadays (gaming now a practical thing, new kernel features, Wine getting really good) were all bankrolled by massive billion dollar corps like Valve and Google, because the community itself has no discipline to see things through.
At least GNU of the old days was organised enough to know not to break people's workflows - just look at how stable coreutils have been - but GUI software for regular people somehow doesn't deserve to get the same treatment.