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Cake day: September 23rd, 2023

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  • Honestly must be incredibly stressful managing a project like the Linux kernel. Governments constantly wanting changes made for their own purposes, companies leeching off the work of volunteers, neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.

    I don’t envy them at all. This sort of change was inevitability going to piss people off - it could have been handled better but I think it was going to be lose/lose no matter which way it was done.



  • Just a point on Wayland - I have an nvidia GPU and have been on Wayland for a couple months now (KDE Plasma), and its been entirely problem free and I actually forgot I switched from X11 to Wayland.

    Blender has support for Wayland now too.

    I do a lot of gaming and development - ever since Nvidia made those changes for Wayland support and KDE added that explicit sync stuff its been great. Before all of that though I had heaps of issues with flickering and just general usability.

    Wayland actually fixed a number of issues for me, like stuttering when notifications appear, and jankyness in resizing windows.




  • Good question. I suppose the advantage is it’s small scope, and it’s bash only so it’s just using the same commands you’d use if you were to manually be installing Arch. Whether or not you find that an advantage or not is up to you really. The idea behind it was to put minimal thought into the install process and just have a lazy installation script. I found it super handy when spinning up VMs for instance.