Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph

Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by chrissoundz on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:54AM (#36561507)

Props to those of you still at the mercy of your OS publishers (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac) who dictate your software, updates, how your hardware is used and general freedom. Did a lot of that in my teens.

I boot my pc, login, press win+p, type in "fir" which autocompletes to firefox and it starts firefox. And I don't think this process will change much for the rest of my life.

The alternative is a constantly changing menu UI, intrusive popups/notifications, deprecations, and a "oh wait sorry Firefox now has to be Certified from the app store", random telemetry data being sent over, strange unknown but necessary "computation" happening and what else have I missed?

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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by jswny on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:31AM (#36562382)

All of that sounds a lot better than spending an entire afternoon getting basic graphics to work for a desktop environment

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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by eviks on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:05PM (#36563939)

> what else have I missed

You've missed the part where you can press win+r to launch Firefox immediately (or open if it's already launched, but inactive, or hide if it's active without any autocompletion) on any of those systems ignoring all of the menu UI nonsense, which is also workflow that can remain stable for the rest of your life (also, Firefox is also sending random telemetry data)

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