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Re:The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant by bitwize on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:29PM (#37372917)
No, it doesn't, it works like shit because that's not how modern apps work anymore.

Modern apps draw all their UI client-side onto a surface which is then sent to X for display. IF ONLY we had a windowing system that was based around simply compositing together the various surfaces that the apps draw into a complete image of the desktop. Since this is a step away from the complexity of X, we could give it a name starting with W...

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Re:The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant by jjav on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:54PM (#37374968)
> No, it doesn't, it works like shit because that's not how modern apps work anymore.

Don't know what to tell you, your experience is different.

Many of my computers are on a rack and I run everything on them over X displaying to my desktop. Works just fine.

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Re:The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant by bitwize on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:04PM (#37488327)
Try running Firefox over your networked X connection.

Go ahead, I'll wait. Literally, I'll wait.

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