throwaway7486

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   by throwaway7486 11mo ago

   It's unfair to claim Wayland is inherently different from X11 in this regard. Both are just specifications, and there are also proprietary implementations of the X11 protocol, primarily for Windows and enterprise settings.
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   by throwaway7486 11mo ago

   There are reasons for those architecture differences. Wayland is an evolution of the previous design. X11's architecture had clients sending drawing commands to the X server, a method that became limited and required extensions over ti
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   by throwaway7486 11mo ago

   > It's like if Wayland is not just a graphical system, but a full business plan. Control upstream, then companies wanting solutions will go to you first. Wayland is open source with a fixed core protocol that's extremely stable
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   by throwaway7486 11mo ago

   > Some gamers certainly believed nonsense such as "all X programs are forced to use ancient drawing primitives and so programs will be much faster with Wayland". This is incorrect. Kristian Høgsberg has explicitly stated that a
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   by throwaway7486 11mo ago

   > Another big issue imo to me feels like ssh, X servers ssh forwarding/vnc just works, Yet I haven't really found ways to do things like VNC on wayland on a server or something as easy (or even possible?) on wayland as compared