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Autor: Tomasz Kundera
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Dla: William Peckham
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Temat: Re: [DNG] Food for Thought? Wayland
So I still do not see any advantages of using Wayland. It needs additional
software to do what Xorg server does itself. And that additional software
looks rather like workaround.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM William Peckham <wpeckham@???> wrote:

> I understand. The free desktop guys say that is up to the upper layer
> application, not Wayland. Solutions include running x.org on to, which
> is supported, and using it to remote clients or a full X desktop. Other
> solutions involve VNC, RDP (ick), even WayVNC, and there is waypipe. Check
> the https://wayland.freedesktop.org/FAQ.html page as a start.
>
> I currently just switch between Wayland and x.org as my needs change.
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 17:58 Tomasz Kundera <tnkundera@???> wrote:
>
>> Wayland is useless for me as it does not run over the network. It is a
>> crucial feature of X Windows.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM William Peckham via Dng <
>> dng@???> wrote:
>>
>>> I see XWindows/X.org as a wonderful project that diverged from the unix
>>> philosophy. It was a single application that had parts and features
>>> embedded to support MANY things that were not the purpose at all. I love
>>> it! Wayland is another X11 server providing the same core function, with
>>> new and cleaner code, without all the pieces that do not belong. One
>>> project that does the function very well, communicated with other
>>> applications, and has no cruft: more pure in the unix sense. Wayland is
>>> absolutely more in the unix philosophy!
>>>
>>> Possibly unwelcome for those who depend upon all the cruft.
>>>
>>> As for systems, it is 100% pure cruft with no redeeming features. It
>>> violates the unix philosophy, provides lots of points of failure, and
>>> additional security vulnerabilities. ( it works .. )
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