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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by ahartmetz on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:52PM (#44034086)
>the Wayland death spiral

That sounds like Wayland getting worse, but it's actually been slowly improving and it's pretty good now. Only took a decade+ to get there.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by pelorat on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#44034336)
Mir was good from year one.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by davrosthedalek on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:05PM (#44036339)
Judging from what happened to X11, that means wayland will be deprecated very soon. /s
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by samplatt on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:23AM (#44037773)
Not unlike Win10 vs 11.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by ahartmetz on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:25PM (#44074215)
/s indeed because there are actually no plans at all to replace Wayland!

I think the infamous cascade of attention-deficit teenagers (CADT) has slowed down quite a bit in the desktop space because... well, most developers there are over 30 now.

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