Getting comfortable with legacy software is completely valid as long as you’re aware of the potential disadvantages. Shitposting online about it or worse being wrong on the internet are different stories.

That’s not the same thing as shitposting online about your grievances with Wayland.

Did you try it that with Gnome? I heard that some input methods suffered with the wayland transition because mutter makes some weird choices. From my personal experience, libinput works great with a wacom tablet, so I’m assuming you ran into an issue with a specific DE.

Let me rephrase that: it sounds like a niche problem to have for an end user. It also doesn’t sound like a fair complaint, because no long-term replacement to X was ever going to be drop-in the way you seem to expect.

Alright then, since everyone assumes I’m here to participate in this shitty flamewar instead of genuinely asking what someone is talking about: the article does a pretty good job of explaining what the idea is behind not giving applications absolute coordinates to position their windows in. If that isn’t enough and you’re one of those people who insist that it must be those evil Wayland devs pushing their security agenda down everyones throats, then you might consider how much of a pain this was for any WM that wanted to do something like scrollable workspaces or managing a device that doesn’t have a standard screen shape. If anything, giving apps access to global coordinates the way X did, just makes them less portable to other environments. There are trade-offs here and you might disagree with the compromise we landed on for now, but all of this has already been discussed for years so at this point I really don’t care for snarky commentary from people who aren’t willing to contribute towards the changes they want to see.

If that was the case then maybe I’d have more patience for disingenuous shit like this.

I wasn’t really asking you but thanks for chiming in I guess.

That sounds like a fairly niche problem to have.

Which one are you talking about?

I will concede that not every obscure feature has been kept but the vast majority of users are now better served by wayland compositors. I have no idea what you mean by “project”, but if they had no concerns for backwards compatibility, then XWayland wouldn’t exist.

Stopping work on X11 because it’s been an unmaintainable mess for ages doesn’t really count as “forcing” anything upon anyone. I won’t pretend that Wayland protocol development hasn’t seen plenty of disagreements, but it is still a collaborative process.

Your disagreements seem fairly vague to me and I can’t help but think that the “pigheaded” label is somewhat ironic, after your first paragraph.

They are even free to thanklessly maintain X11 for all the other contrarian fossils, because the developers sure aren’t doing it anymore.

Missing feature != Inability to customize

Bait 😔

They are trying to appear human. Somehow that seems to involve catching invisible fish.

I don’t blame people for thinking that something is off after reading the linked blog post. This wouldn’t be the first time Google does something like this to OSS that poses some kind of potential threat to their business model (this is also mentioned in the post).

I get that part. I just don’t understand how the analogy relates to the programming languages. Maybe it really is just a shitty analogy from someone who doesn’t know much about either language.

It’s probably not for everyone. I love comedy shows, parodies, wacky style and mystery, so it’s perfectly tailored towards my tastes I guess. This might also be a personal thing, but I will say that episode 7 is one of the most well-directed and deeply emotional episodes I’ve ever seen.

That might just be a matter of taste. I probably watched way more shows from those decades, but some of my all-time favorites have been released in the last few years. Mob Psycho, City, Frieren, Dungeon Meshi and Dandadan are probably the best adaptations I could have hoped for and among the best productions I’ve ever seen. There are plenty of lower budget releases I love as well, like mono, eizouken or bartender.

Sure, there’s stuff that just doesn’t get made anymore like hand animated original mecha and original anime in general have been declining, but at least for me there’s more to watch than I really have time for.

I genuinely don’t get it.

The golden age has been over for a while now, but there are still shows with original ideas coming out. This stream of samey, uninspired shit has been around for at least a decade however and seems fairly constant to me.