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michaelmrose, to linuxmemes in It's OK if you cry

If it is not in the kernel and the manufacturer doesn’t provide one, don’t expect fun times.

This could be shorted to if your device has no driver it wont work which is obviously true.

If you have very recent hardware and you find it doesn’t work out of the box on stable options the easiest thing to do is install a more recent kernel. Even current Ubuntu non-LTS is 2-4 releases behind.

learnubuntu.com/install-mainline-kernel/ alternatively you can use a third party kernel repo which has a recent build with extras xanmod.org I’m using the second option.

It’s even easier in arch/void where the latest kernel is already available.

Respectfully if DKMS wasn’t automatically kicking in then you configured it incorrectly. It’s a lot easier to just rely on a package that sets this up for you properly. If for some reason this can’t be done the logical thing to do is script the process so that all operations are completed in the appropriate order that way you needn’t remember to do one then the other.

michaelmrose, to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

X has a singular fully functional implementation into which you can slot a wide variety of components. Because everything is a component that slots into the singular X implementation forking has both a low benefit and a high cost.

Wayland is just a protocol everyone must implement with a semi useless reference implementation that nobody would ever use. Nobody forks Wayland they just implement it as they must the X approach isn’t available.

It’s apples to oranges. A meaningless comparison. Its more just churn than innovation on the part of desktops.

michaelmrose, to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

Doesn’t that drastically limit your monitor support like to ONE?

michaelmrose, to linuxmemes in Linux users when

Is there a good term you’d recommend as slang for these people?

Windows users. It’s kind of useless to optimize a product for users who have no interest in it.

michaelmrose, to asklemmy in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

You said we need 5 billion acres but that is more than all the present space used to grow crops worldwide. It’s hard to imagine how you think this is possible

michaelmrose, to asklemmy in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

Statistically its a microscopic portion a fraction of 1% who regret transitioning which tends to suggest social contagion isn’t a thing either.

michaelmrose, to memes in Fuckn UAE government

To recap. He said as a person in a threatened NATO country he was glad we spent lots of money on our military because it might be needed to help protect his country. You said something on the order of “what are you even talking about” I explained this in smaller words.

You said some warm fuzzy stuff and I said if you wanted people to care you had to make them care about people not abstractions. You then went off on 17 tangents and that brings us up to date.

You seem to feel like I’ve taken a contrary position everything you’ve ever said or indeed thought based on you projecting everything your mad about onto me. Have you considered having a coffee and leaving and coming in again?

michaelmrose, to memes in Fuckn UAE government

They generally don’t. All the possible benefits are very abstract and very long term. If you can get people to give a fuck its because of in your face humanity and decency not such abstractions.

michaelmrose, (edited ) to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

Building on top of wlroots is still a different scope of problem than writing a window manager for X. Pretending its the same thing doesn’t change the fundamentally different architecture even if it certainly makes it easier.

Out of all the libraries isn’t recent KDE the only fucking one that supports proper scaling of xwayland windows without turning it into a blurry mess? KDE which nice as it is lacks most of the nice tiling features of i3wm or the per monitor workspaces? Let me rip out and throw away a highly functional Nvidia GPU and come on down!

Don’t worry in another fucking 10 years all problems will be solved in the meanwhile I’ll just be fucking using non-beta software. Pardon me if I’m a little annoyed. Wayland has been the future for a while now.

michaelmrose, to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

I switched to using Linux in 2003 and have by my assessment got quite a bit of value over the last 20 years maybe you shouldn’t have waited?

michaelmrose, to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

For most of its 15 year history implementations have been woefully and obviously insufficient. Nobody forked X because nobody needed to. Its feature complete and has been for a long time and there was nothing wrong with using X while Wayland implementations see progressive improvement.

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