[HN Gopher] Gaming on Wayland ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-14 23:00 UTC)