In the EU, it sort of isn’t.

Takes a long time to write a proper response for all the GDPR stuff. The responses surprisingly don’t change all that much whether or not I do, so I might as well save me the trouble.

First thing you mention is such a fun and useful exercise. But as you point out, way overkill. Might even be dangerous to expose it. I got mine to 20kb on top of busybox.

There is something that tickles the right spots when a complete container image significantly smaller than the average js payload in “modern” websites.

Thanks for the clarifications.

I do hope it improves. I never understood why Wayland became a thing, if it’s fundamentally flawed. But then, on the other hand, it’s strange to not make the improvements in X11, unless that too is fundamentally flawed.

I don’t know about all of those. Not sure if you downvoted me, in which case you might have the predisposition of not giving a shit. In which case I’d be most happy to oblige.

As for the technical implementations / shortcomings, I… don’t really care about it. The reason I didn’t use Wayland before was because things didn’t work. The reasons why I don’t use X11 now, is because things occasionally stop working. The reason why I still sometimes use X11, is that unless I do so, some specific software doesn’t work. That’s the frame of mind I have, and I don’t have any allegiance or vested interest beyond that. You seem to have that, and that’s great. Caring about the technical details has my respect.

So as for the stuff you mention that is directly user-facing:

• Screen recording used to be a problem, haven’t had that issue recently. OBS records my screens and part of it, just fine.
• Window sharing like you could with X11 with ssh -X is amazing, and doesn’t work, but it’s been about 15 years since I used it.
• Crashes that completely freeze my computer. Doesn’t happen in Wayland. Happens in X11 (it’s not a kernel panic, but whatever it is, I have to reboot, end result is the same to me).
• Have had no issues with any of the monitors I own.
• Global hotkeys work, and have always worked, for me. If it didn’t, I simply wouldn’t use Wayland, as a lot of my workflows surround tools I have built and trigger with global hotkeys.
• Sleep mode, I don’t use. Is that the same as Hibernation?
• I don’t use a single appimage, but I downloaded one to try now, and it worked fine.
• What is redshift?
• “Windows can’t raise themselves or keep themselves raised”, does this mean to request to be in focus? I’m curious which programs benefit from this.
• sudo is insecure by default in Wayland? How come? I’d be interested to know how it has anything to do with wayland/x11. unless you mean GUI applications executed with sudo, not having access to wayland stuff?

I was in the same camp one year ago. I sometimes still use it due to Synergy not working otherwise.

It’s a common occurrence in X11 that I get a full screen “Oops something broke. [Log out]”-screen, except you cannot log out because the screen doesn’t register any inputs.

So, these days: Wayland just works, and X11 (except for some specific software) causes problems. But, I aslo use AMD GPU.

So, what in particular is not ready with Wayland? I hated it two years ago. Now, I have little reason to.

Did it stop after W7? I feel like it still does this at every opportunity, be that W10 or W11

My impression of linuxmemes (what’s the lemmy word for subreddit?) is mostly that it feels like the regular posters don’t use Linux. Either that, or it is automated and reposting stuff from 10-20 years ago that isn’t very accurate or relevant.

I think arch install defaults to systemd-boot these days. But, I realise that doesn’t negate anything you said… So. Hope you’re having a nice day.

Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I’ve used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that’s also Microsoft being shit.

People just don’t know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

What do you suspect the issue can be? Some sources not syncing causing multiple divergences?

I don’t remember installing arch. Hm. Can’t have been a big hassle. Is this some kind of meta meme?

If the purpose of collecting the data by private companies is to somehow make money, do you think that sharing this data, or conclusions based on this data, somehow manages to exclude access of governmental agencies? I’ve never gotten the impression that CIA/NSA would ever willingly play nice.

Never trust cloud solutions when it isn’t your cloud.