• Shareni@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Imagine using a so called modern protocol that leaves you unable to change a WM in a DE

    Who needs xorg bloat when you can make compositor devs reimplement it instead and bloat their own codebase lol

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      There isn’t such thing as a WM under Wayland. There are only compositors which make up everything such as the WM, Effects compositor, io etc. To standardize things for smaller compositors things like wlroots exist. Creating a basic compositor using that is around 100 lines of code

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, and that was my point: Wayland turns DEs into inflexible monoliths. You trade modularity, customisability, and stability for better scaling, high-end monitor support, and theoretical security.

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          8 months ago

          The theoretical security part is what got me “huh 🤨” as well… like “ok, but all of this is planned… or in the works… or it should work… when does the “it does work” part kick in 🤨”.