Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Begone Wayland, X12 Is My New Best Friend" video.

Yes to Chrome versioning being stupid. Firefox only copied that to avoid looking outdated in comparison. USB I can't agree with the same way. They're only on version 4 and all of the major versions (possibly excepting 2) involved major PHY changes.
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I found third-party systems like Sunshine/Moonlight to work much more smoothly than built-in Windows RDP.
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@anon_y_mousse You joke but listening to the hard drive is how I would know how far along in the boot process my old computers were. Near-silent mechanical drives killed that ability.
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Without a compositor anytime part of one window is uncovered it needs to immediately redraw itself. With non-optimized applications this means the entire window gets redrawn which can be computationally intensive. You've probably seen Windows XP screenshots where an error dialog is dragged over a window and leaves a trail, this is what happens when the background window can't redraw in a timely manner. With a compositor the WM knows exactly what each window looks like so moving and/or switching between windows is always instant. And related to that, compositing window managers can show miniature previews when using window-switching functions like Alt-Tab. It's much quicker to tab to a moving picture of Brodie than it is to tab to the text "Begone Wayland". On my crappy old netbook compositing had a noticeable performance hit. But when you only have a 1024x576 display the ability to switch windows instantly made it worth it.
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@elmariachi5133 USB-IF has finally realized they've been stupid. Apparently late last year they announced they're going for new names like "USB 10 Gbps".
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@dakka76 Yes, Wayland, Mass. The reference compositor is Weston, which is not coincidentally a town that borders Wayland.
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Running software in a Linux container (or even a completely separate system) does not stop it from having total access to the X server.
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@lawrencedoliveiro9104 For most purposes I much prefer the idea of only forwarding specific applications. You're right that persistent systems like Xpra largely make X network transparency redundant. However, it is still handy to be able to run programs remotely without extra intermediate software.
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@angeldude101 I don't think it's trivial to add "real" miniature window previews without a lot of rework of the window manager to add compositing. A cheap alternative could be made by capturing a picture of a window right before hiding it. This would be uniquely easy with a tiling window manager because then there's no such thing as an occluded part of the window. As for the actual amount of support needed, I don't know. All the native GUI coding I've ever done is for Windows.
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