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There are times when the original standard has zero forwards compatibility in it, such that any improvement made to it necessarily creates a new standard.

And then there's also times when old greybeards simply disregard the improved standard because they are too used to the classic way.

TOML isn't elegant at all but damn, it is really simple.

"it just maxes out the ram and then does nothing." is absolute nonsense. The programs need memory to operate.

If your RAM is maxed out and the programs seem to operate just as fine, the OS is doing something behind the scenes, it's just a matter of what that something is. And memory swapping / virtual memory is a well-known method of alleviating RAM overuse, at the cost of murdering your SSD/HDD lifespan.

To be fair: A notebook with a bunch of strong passwords is probably more secure than a human brain memorising a bunch of weak passwords.

Can't replicate your results here. I play on Wayland, and deliberately force some games to run natively on Wayland (SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland) and so far I haven't noticed any framerate changes except statistical noise.

I don't use embedded lyrics myself, but AFAIK Ogg (and by extension Opus) supports embedding lyrics using OggKate. Whether your player supports lyrics embedded in Ogg, is a whole other topic...

ReplayGain is supported.

DON'T. Use 160kbps Opus instead, all modern phones should support it. You can halve the size of your library while still enjoying the quality of 320kbps mp3.

I like my .opus files.

Tell me you haven't seen people adamantly defending IPv4 without telling me so...

Good luck getting a block of IP addresses from your regional internet registry for this community ISP... IP address exhaustion is just that, no more addresses. That's why we are sharing them.

We do have a solution and it's called IPv6, but its deployment is still not as widespread as people would like to be. If I self-host my website on IPv6, a lot of people from Europe would still be unable to access it.

That's pretty much just pushing the centralization from Google, AWS etc to the hosting services.

It's pretty difficult nowadays to self-host websites when everyone and their nanny shares a single public IP address (IPv4 address exhaustion is real, everyone!) unless you purchase a hosting service.

Do I hate systemd now?

No, because that's not specific to systemd.

I can quite clearly remember the long shutdown times back when Ubuntu was still using Upstart.

Generally speaking, long shutdown times are an indication of a system issue (e.g. HDD going bad or slow network) or just scripts being written poorly, and could be worked around by changing the timeout value. Systemd defaults to 90 seconds, but you can change that to 30 secs or lower.

Still really good but I wanted it to melt my face like the end of Indiana Jones.

Truly c/BrandNewSentence material.

Seriously though, never challenge Indian and Thai cooks on spiciness. They can be ruthless!

It's not a fork of wlroots. wlroots is a library to assist developers in creating Wayland compositors.

I solved my {Fedora,Debian,Arch,Ubuntu} Linux problems thanks to the wiki, but yours... just wow.

You ably demonstrate your own inability to listen.

Or was it you?

I'm not sure how you hallucinated that Wayland got 4 years of design and 8 years of implementation.

2012-2021, or to clarify "Late 2012 to early-mid 2021" seems to be 8-point-something years to me. I dunno, did mathematics change recently or something?

With graphics programming relatively in its infancy X11 didn't require 15 years to become usable

I hope you do understand that graphics weren't as complicated back then. Compositing of windows was not an idea (at least, not a widely spread one) in the 90s. Nor was sandboxing an idea back then. Or multidisplay (we hacked it onto X11 later through XRandR). Or HDR nowadays. Or HiDPI. Or touch input and gestures. We software rendered everything too, so DRI and friends weren't thought of.

In a way... you are actually insulting the kernel developers.

That is to say in practical effect actual usage of real apps so dwarfs any overhead that it is immeasurable statistical noise

The concern about battery life is also probably equally pointless.

some of us have actual desktops.

There just aren't. It's not blurry.

I don't have a bunch of screen tearing

Let me summarize this with your own statement, because you certainly just went out and disregarded all things I said:

Your responses make me think you aren't actually listening for instance

Yeah, you are now just outright ignoring people's opinion. 2 hours of battery life - statistical noise, pointless. Laptops - who neeeeeeeeds that, we have desktops!! Lack of fractional scaling which people literally listed as a "disadvantage" of Wayland before it got the protocol - yeah, I guess X11 is magic and somehow things are not blurry on X11 which has the same problem when XRandR is used.

Do I need to quote more?

Also, regarding this:

Wayland development started in 2008 and in 2018 was still a unusable buggy pile of shit.

Maybe you should take note of when Wayland development had actually started picking up. 2008 was when the idea came up. 2012 was when the concrete foundation started being laid.

Not to mention that it was 2021 when Fedora and Ubuntu made it default. Your experience in 2018 is not representative of the Wayland ecosystem in 2021 at all, never mind that it's now 2023. The 3 years between 2018-2021 saw various applications either implementing their first support, or maturing their support of Wayland. Maybe you should try again before asserting a bunch of opinions which are outdated.

Wayland was effectively rebuilding the Linux graphics stack from the ground up. (No, it's not rebuilding the stack for the sake of it. The rebuilding actually started in X.org, but people were severely burned out in the end. Hence Wayland. X.org still contains an atomic KMS implementation, it's just disabled by default.)

4 years of designing and 8 years of implementation across the entire ecosystem is impressive, not obnoxious.

It's obnoxious to those of us who discovered Linux 20 years ago rather than last week.

Something makes me think that you aren't actually using it 20 years ago.

Maybe it's just my memory of the modelines failing me. Hmmm... did I just hallucinate the XFree86 server taking down my system?

Oh noes, I am getting old. Damn.

Theoretically an average user should feel nothing. The benefits of Wayland are usually more visible when more modern technologies are involved, for example VRR, high DPI, HDR, etc.