edinbruh @ edinbruh @feddit.it

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surface flinger has some X11 code

Does it? I don't know for sure, but I'm extremely skeptical. Can you point to the source of this claim?

Not entirely, for example you don't expect the package manager to remove the gnome folder from the .local of every user

They could be using different package managers or different repos

To me the problem is actually removing the old one. You can easily uninstall gnome, but it will leave behind config files and various data. It's less clean.

Also, there's an overlap in the libraries required by DEs, so you should use the "replace" option in you package manager (if it has one) to let o t figure out the best way to uninstall one and install the other.

Home is pretty useful actually, just like end. Ins can go fuck itself

Teletubopticon.

It's the same as the panopticon, but on the tv-belly of the inmates opposite to you, you can also see the regions of the prison that are in your blind spot.

What is that website? Why does it have ads? It looks like a scammy aggregator of GitHub repos. Can't you just link the repo? Which is the first result googling "bussin esolang"

Being meguka is suffering

Enough about the average person. What about the mode person and median person

"King/queen" is clumsy and unreadable. Should go for a gender neutral "monarch"

Did they have Nvidia? Interesting, didn't know

Most features missing right now (not all) are against the Wayland philosophy, this doesn't mean that you won't get anything but that it needs a "modern era replacement". Though applications will need to support the replacement. This is usually for good reasons.

The prime example is screen recording. Allowing any program to read and write the entire screen is objectively wrong, no matter what the big time X11 fans say. But there is a replacement: pipewire. Pipewire is extremely advanced and featureful, and it's more secure because it allows the system and the user to audit who is reading the screen and what part. The problem is that programs need to support pipewire for screen recording, but the main culprits are niche screen recorders (OBS is the best anyway, and it supports it) and proprietary video call software like discord (zoom supports it), which is silly because for electron apps it's literally a matter of using a version less than 3 years old an adding a flag.

Obviously that's not true... like, at all...

Android phones use Surface Flinger, which is a compositor that has nothing to do with either Wayland or X11. But we could say it's kinda similar to Wayland in the fact that it's composited and uses something similar to GBM and GEMM for managing buffers.

Android drivers don't even use the same "semantics" as Linux drivers (android uses explicit sync, while Linux is implicit, but they are working on supporting explicit sync because Nvidia and because it's better). It's only in the last few years that you can use Linux drivers in android, plus some synchronization stuff.

There's the Nvidia Shield tablet and some old Google Nexus that runs on tegra. Also if you are one of the unlucky People that bought a Windows RT tablet expecting it to run any program at all, you might have a tegra. Also the Nintendo Switch has one.

Fun fact: if I'm not mistaken, the Nexuses used nouveau.

SPACE Space space space space...

If I get back to 2005 I can easily get more than 10 millions by the time it's 2024 again. Plus all the other perks of restarting your life

Ass knuckles

Dude what are you talking about, it was still here less than 15 years ago. The Nintendo Wii literally had an ATI GPU

It's cotton, actually

It looks like my ass is very knowledgeable. Definitely a good source