Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Begone Wayland, X12 Is My New Best Friend" video.

  1. Why are you so NT Windows?
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  2. 3:15 To me, “network transparency” means, if you disconnect your network connection, it doesn’t kill the GUI session. You can reconnect at some later point, and all the apps are still running. X does not manage this on its own. Something like RDP or VNC or X2Go is needed. But given they exist, there is no need for the X brand of “network transparency”.
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  3. Before X, there was W (which ran on the V OS). Then X was created as its successor, and went through all these major version bumps until it got to 11. So then the major version stopped, but we kept seeing revisions--X11R2 etc, up until X11R7. And then the major R number stopped incrementing too, and now we have decimal points, up to X11R7.7.
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  4. BeOS ties the GUI into the OS kernel, which is not something you expect in a modern platform.
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  5. True network transparency means you can addi it on as a separate layer or take it off, and none of the existing apps will even notice.
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  6. 8:34 Access to OpenGL and Vulkan might one.
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  7. I still have an old Asus Eee 701 literally within arm’s reach.
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  8. Multiple CPUs, yes. What’s the difference between a “CPU” and a “core”?
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  9.  @Bob-of-Zoid  GPU ≠ CPU.
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  10.  @Bob-of-Zoid  Quote: “some have GPUs”.
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  11.  @Bob-of-Zoid  CPUs and GPUs are different kinds of PUs.
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  12. “Pyro” for the Mac might have been the first.
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  13. I could never quite figure out what a “Visual” was supposed to be. I think it’s a screen configuration.
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  14.  @splitprissm9339  Forwarding whole sessions is exactly what you normally need.
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  15. There is a lot of obsession with brand names. Too often, form takes priority over content. But then, that sums up most of the history of GUI design, doesn’t it?
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