[HN Gopher] Gaming on Wayland
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       Gaming on Wayland
        
       Author : 1_player
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-12-14 22:40 UTC (20 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (zamundaaa.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (zamundaaa.github.io)
        
       | smoldesu wrote:
       | This is a neat and helpful comparison, but to me the issue was
       | never really latency; it's more the fact that Wayland isn't
       | neccesarily a direct upgrade over x11 in a lot of ways.
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       | Now, I can anticipate a number of responses to this. Firstly, a
       | lot of people will (correctly) point out that x11 isn't a very
       | good window server, and doesn't account for things like
       | compositing, security or proper window management. Fair enough,
       | they're all valid complaints. Wayland's solution to the dog bite
       | seems to be pulling the teeth off the dog though, and I don't
       | really agree with a lot of the design philosophy that went into
       | making it. It reminds me of the recent GNOME releases, where
       | their solution to inconsistent user theming and poor extension
       | support was just to remove both features altogether. The trap
       | that a lot of modern Linux developers seem to fall into is
       | fragmenting their userbase under the guise of "finally fixing"
       | some pain point or bug, and cutting off the users who disagree
       | with them instead of Doing One Thing, and Doing It Well. Everyone
       | is big-picture these days, wanting to take giant leaps for the
       | Linux desktop experience without really considering how
       | extensible or feature-complete their program is, and slamming the
       | "f*ck it, ship it" button before it's ready.
       | 
       | Admittedly, there's not an elegant solution to any of this.
       | However, in this specific example, I think the best course of
       | action would have been to just outright plagiarize Apple's
       | Quartz. The development cycle for Wayland has been painful to say
       | the least, and a lot of it came from wildly unnecessary breaking
       | changes, vendor apprehension and arguments about ideology that
       | really shouldn't have wasted our time in the first place. Now
       | that it's "ready", there's a couple hundred asterisks following
       | every feature, and the experience is generally shaky enough to
       | keep me fearful of God and contented with x11, no matter how bad
       | it is.
        
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