• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    So the middleware stays the same but the underlying server changes? That’s an amazing strategy I wish Wayland did this instead of breaking damn near everything with it’s strange restrictions on behavior and overlays

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      10 months ago

      The thing with Wayland and X11 is: this couldn’t really be done because of how fundamentally broken incompatible X11 is (and there is XWayland for most clients that mostly works)

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        10 months ago

        And it hasn’t done that because no one is going to replace it a good but old pipe with a few issues with a pipe with a massive hole in it

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      10 months ago

      it’s strange restrictions on behavior and overlays

      Ain’t this is good for security and privacy?

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        10 months ago

        A “security” that interrupts the user or prevents them from doing their work is bad, because it incentivizes the user to skip or disable it, and the use of a Linux system already can get most of the ways to do either of those via ${packagemanager} install. Thus it’s more like security theatre.

        From what I gather, the wayland model of things is so ridiculous that it can’t even provide for global hotkeys - which are, like, the guaranteed way to setup an interface the user can trust because it’ll always mean that when the user users it. I doubt wayland would even be Magic SysRq keys-compatible.

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        10 months ago

        What the other person said. I didn’t even think magic sysrq keys I was thinking like some steam like overlay lmao