savvywolf

savvywolf, 23 days ago

Programs running graphically (Firefox, your file browser, etc.) need a way to tell the system “draw these pixels here”. That’s what the display server does; it takes all these applications, works out where their windows are and manages that pixel data.

XOrg has historically been the display server in common use, but it’s very old and very cobbled together. It generally struggles with “modern” things that must people expect today. Multimonitor setups, vsync, hdr and all that. They work, but support is hacked together and brittle.

Wayland is a replacement for XOrg that was designed from scratch to fix a lot of these issues. But it’s been an uphill battle because XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.

tl;dr They’re both software that manages drawing pixels from applications to the display.

savvywolf, 1 month ago

They 100% would stop you if they could.

It’s why Google’s website DRM thing was so scary.

savvywolf, 3 months ago

TBF, they could probably make the “releases” page more prominent rather than having it buried in all the “code” stuff.

savvywolf, 3 months ago

Don’t humans have the ability to fuck everything? It’s why half elves and half orcs exist, but no non-human hybrids.

savvywolf, 3 months ago

vice.com/…/afp-autistic-13-year-old-child-terrori… Original article, in case people don’t want to take the word of a pepe person named “Right Wing Cope” for some reason.

savvywolf, 5 months ago

You know, I do wonder how many of these statistics are influenced by Linux users tendancy to use adblockers and block tracking. Linux could be more popular than it looks.

Also, they should tell us how much of that increase is due to the Steam Deck. :P