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Re:Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by gldrk on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:23AM (#46002415)
>This is a lot different than say OSS vs ALSA.

ALSA is an absolute nightmare to work with infinitely worse than Wayland. At best 10% of it is ‘documented’ through Doxygen. For the rest the only reference is the source code. This is one reason applications don’t tend to support ALSA anymore.

Re:Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by bcrl on Saturday November 22, 2025 @05:49PM (#46019042)
It's easier to write documentation than to completely rewrite a subsystem.