Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?

Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by coldtea on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:40AM (#47452790)

"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"

is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS

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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by ebiederm on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:28AM (#47455046)

But it happens successfully.

The code base is Xorg rather than Xfree86 because of one such fork.

Gcc went through the egcs fork.

OpenOffice became LibreOffice in a fork.

When leadership of a project fails to keep the volunteers behind them such forks happen.

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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by kibwen on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:47PM (#47457202)

And? I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution without proposing any alternatives, which tends to be a tacit admission that there is no better solution. If you think you have a better solution, let's hear it:

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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by coldtea on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:28AM (#47466069)

>I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution

And? Fortunately, free speech and criticism doesn't stop when someone is tired of hearing it.

The alternative doesn't need to be some new solution. A course reversal or change on the existing ones is enough. In which case the criticism already highlights the solution. Besides, the first step of fixing a problem is identifying it.

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