Arghblarg

I put on my robe and wizard hat

I sincerely hope it turns out to be the case. I don’t pretend I haven’t torn out my hair on multiple occasions fighting with xorg.conf… that’s for sure.

Just being provocative for the lulz on a memepost, mostly :)

:) I’ll try it again, promise. I just didn’t have a good experience around two years ago. I do hear it’s much better now.

I’ll confess I’ve avoided systemd to this day however. Devuan/Funtoo are fine, and I don’t miss any of the supposed improvements systemd brings. So I’ll probably be rocking Wayland/open-rc or Wayland/sysv-init until I drop dead.

I’m starting to think Wayland is the systemd of desktop graphic environments. Might be amazing eventually, but pushed onto the community too soon by opinionated devs who have fallen victim to the second-system effect.

Mod me down, don’t care.

Edit: Woohoo, into the ground! Mod me down further, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine :p

I don’t troll often, but when I do… it’s about Wayland and systemd. Nyah nyah.

Honestly if Wayland will work 100% on my next setup and apps appear as expected, I won’t give a damn what system I’m using.

Don’t let your guard down. Maybe this time they’ll fully pull the TPM/UEFI trigger and make it impossible to install any other OS on new PCs… they have lots of leverage over manufacturers to tighten the screws on the BIOS and boot process.

I haven’t kept up with it, but OpenCores is a balwark against this type of thing. FPGAs, while not as efficient as fab silicon, AFAIK lets one implement CPUs, interconnects and peripherals without any predefined channels to target for subversion. The NSA or other boogeymen couldn’t craft a backdoor for your FPGA CPU, since the FPGA is just a ‘blank slate’ until programmed so they have no idea even what to attack beforehand. The chip could be literally anything once programmed. FPGAs by design have to faithfully implement the basic gates, with no jiggery-pokery, otherwise it would be evident immediately that something was up. Right?