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KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of "Wayland breaking everything" isn't really accurate.

"In this context, “breaking everything” is another perhaps less accurate way of saying “not everything is fully ported yet”. This porting is necessary because Wayland is designed to target a future that doesn’t include 100% drop-in compatibility with everything we did in the past, because it turns out that a lot of those things don’t make sense anymore. For the ones that do, a compatibility layer (XWayland) is already provided, and anything needing deeper system integration generally has a path forward (Portals and Wayland protocols and PipeWire) or is being actively worked on. It’s all happening!"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

3 monitors is probably a lot more common than you think.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I have, unironically, never seen anyone using three monitors together on a PC in my life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Seriously? That's my home setup, and a lot of my friends also have 3 monitors.

I'm surprised you don't know anyone who has three monitors. It's common for tech-y people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Ive seen several devs do that, and also some of my gaming friends have 3 monitors.

I barely know anyone who only has a single display. Most people I know have one high refresh rate monitor, and one office monitor for discord and the likes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Main work + secondary work (docs, output, ...) + sensors/debug/multimedia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hello! Nice to meet you. I know and love your kind. One monitor is pretty standard, so I have a lot of friends just like you.

Yup, 3 monitors user here. I guarantee it's not that uncommon.

(And yes, I'm still running X11)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A lot of people that run three monitors got all three from a thrift store for $8