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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h2y ago0 comments

Or, users could stay on the perfectly fine X, and anyone who wants to push for Wayland adoption can put in the effort to make it not a regression.

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hsbauauvhabzb2y ago

Users are at the mercy of developers. If you want to stay and care about maintenance, you’d better hope someone is there maintaining it.

bandrami2y ago

In that sense they're even more at the mercy of packagers. There's nearly 400 million repositories on Github alone; the pain point is curating those into a coherent system.

hsbauauvhabzb2y ago

Im not sure how many million of those are required to run gnome on x11 though.

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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h2y ago0 comments

Or, users could stay on the perfectly fine X, and anyone who wants to push for Wayland adoption can put in the effort to make it not a regression.

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hsbauauvhabzb2y ago

Users are at the mercy of developers. If you want to stay and care about maintenance, you’d better hope someone is there maintaining it.

bandrami2y ago

In that sense they're even more at the mercy of packagers. There's nearly 400 million repositories on Github alone; the pain point is curating those into a coherent system.

hsbauauvhabzb2y ago

Im not sure how many million of those are required to run gnome on x11 though.

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