Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux

Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by LeanderK on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:13AM (#32024687)

Is Red Hat still following the playbook? The more companies are engaging in this sort of strategy, the less concentrated the control should be, right?

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Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by akagusu on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:19AM (#32024725)

Yes.

Others are doing the same, probably to take some control for themselves, but have a look on the recent conversation about GTK5 being Wayland-only.

It is the same playbook they used to force Systemd adoption all over again.

So, yes, they are still using the same playbook.

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Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by nyberg on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:19AM (#32025164)

Wayland being a requirement sounds like a sound choice in terms of maintenance and the issues of X itself. Applications don't need to update to GTK5.

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Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by akagusu on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:44AM (#32026543)

What are these issues of X?

Because everyone talks about the issues of X, but Gnome, KDE, Xfce and others run flawless on X, but these same desktops have problems when running on Wayland.

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Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by yarg on Friday July 08, 2022 @10:53PM (#32031047)

X has some fundamental security issues:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe...

The lack of problems on X and the problems on Wayland are mostly an issue of maturity.

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Re:Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux by stuaxo on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:28AM (#32025712)

Gtk4 is easier to port to other platforms than previous iterations and Gtkt should follow that trend, so if someone wanted to make an X port they could.

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