And the guy in question is, simply put, a nutjob.
I don't even disagree with the idea of ditching X11. My criticism is timing; statistics like this show 90% X usage, either instead or alongside Wayland; it's clear most users still use X11, in one form or another. It's like making a street cars only when most people still use horse chariots.
How do I unsee something?
Fuck, I'm late!!! Time to create my movement!
My drawing is ready, though.
For someone who has not used Gnome in 14+ years you sure seem to know a lot about it…
I ditched GNOME in 3.0 times. And I still gave it a second try, a third, even a fourth. And my system has GNOME (and KDE, and Xfce...) applications, so certain patterns are visible even in everyday usage. And I fuck around with virtual machines to find out about random stuff, including DEs that I ditched (like GNOME and KDE) or I never used directly in my machine (like Elementary).
So don't assume "ditched it = ignorant about it".
X11 has effectively already been deprecated for years, seeing little to no development on it.
O rly. And the point still stands: GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready.
Unless you want to claim Wayland reached parity with X11, and there's totally no reason people might want to stick with X11 instead.
And still, there are SEVERAL Long Term Support distros out there that will support X11 for the coming years.
This does not address what I said.
Please stop pretending that stuff will start breaking. It will not.
That is not what I said.
*Yawn* Given that
It's safe to disregard you as meaningless noise, so I ain't wasting my time further with you.
[inb4 people discussing the semantics of "ditch"]
Odds are they're doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user "ackshyually you don't need it".
(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn't just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)
Not in the picture: two Romans looking to the other side of the room, five minutes before the elephant comes in. One tells the other "It's fine, Gaius. See, no Carthaginian ship to the south. They aren't coming."
Look "donghua" up - there is some anime production in China, even if way less than in Japan. And some rather good manhua stories to adapt; I'm still waiting for donghua versions of two. (Fairy Captivity and My Wife is the Demon Queen.)
Plus anime fans are everywhere.
As typical, GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready. I'm glad that I dumped it in 3.0 times.
Wow, this is useful. Main ones I'm picking are:
Reminder HR is not your friend. It'll ask you to do things that won't necessarily benefit you.
Specially sensible excerpt of the text:
If you have suggestions on how things should work differently at the company, the time to tell your boss is while you work there. If they can’t bring themselves to act on it during your tenure, telling them at the exit interview isn’t going to do any good.
I'd say this hypothesis is interesting and if we wait some time we could develop ways to test it, but then I don't know in which dimension of time we'd need to wait for that. What if we wait orthogonally, in the wrong time dimension, and thus we never discover the necessary tests to falsify the hypothesis?
I'm half-joking. I see this new framework as a good development; even if I'm personally sceptic towards it, it might be surprisingly true or lead us towards the right direction, dunno.
In the same style of your husky: when my cat is too hot she still sleeps almost completely covered - except the paws and tail. It's hilariously cute. Pic related: