Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "How To Never Improve The Linux Wayland Experience" video.

@Futschikatores The lack of self awareness is a pretty big trait with the people hating on him. Double standards too. I've seen no fewer than 50 comments calling him an asshole or whatever else and saying they'll never use AppImages or anything he works on. Talking about blocking him. Basically it's an attempt to unperson him while they claim he's such an awful guy for not wanting to accept a PR which would add to his maintenance workload. So many even claim to use projects with not so dissimilar maintainers and still don't see it.
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That feels like a weird language to want as a configuration language. I'd personally rather have a flat configuration format and not have it programmable, but that would presuppose that the environment was so fully fleshed out that you didn't need to hack in fixes and added functionality to get it working. However, if a programming language were required for configuration, I'd actually rather it be more C-like in its syntax. Something akin to early JavaScript: function foo ( a, b, c ) { ... }; // Yeah, still a valid method, but try finding handwritten code that looks that clean and easy on the eyes now.
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My controversial take is that I like this guy. I totally understand where he's coming from and I hope he keeps it up and succeeds. I'll freely admit it that I am an asshole. That said, I don't want X or Wayland. They both suck, just in different ways. I'd love to see someone start from scratch and just not care if apps get ported. It's not like Linux has the market share for it to matter. We just need a good design. And if they called it Y they would get my full support. Project names matter a lot more than people realize.
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@notuxnobux That's one of the things that bugs me about Wayland, and truthfully I find it odd that so many people are willing to overlook their intransigence but not probonopd's. If I had to guess I'd say it's just the usual double standard of "I like this project so I'm willing to overlook things they do wrong, but everyone else can suck it".
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Is anyone working on a Wayland version of xdotool? If so I hope they call it wdotool instead of wl-whatever. I hate filenames like that, especially for a command I'm going to type in. It'll make me alias it which won't be the same for any other system.
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@dreamcat4 Because FlatPak didn't come installed on my system and wouldn't build from source and none of the binaries worked. There are enough users of systems that don't have FlatPak and for whatever reason it isn't easy to set up. Yet I've got several AppImages that work with a simple download and chmod +x.
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@dreamcat4 I would argue that Slackware is mainstream. And there are plenty of niche distros out there too that if enough of them don't support it either they could collectively amount to a lot of users. It's not like it's difficult to build an AppImage anyway. Follow the guide and it just works. Even just statically linked raw binaries would be good, but most don't want to do that even though it's easier than all the package formats.
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Unless you're interacting with the compositor directly it really shouldn't affect you. Use Qt or GTK and don't do anything weird and it should all work fine.
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@tortilla-plus-3892 I might be the only one who still uses xdm. Although, to be fair I do like that it doesn't display all of the users and makes you actually know the user ID. If sddm can be configured to do that I just might use it, but gdm can suck it.
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@Clay Gomera And that's perfectly fine if you want that, but that's why I use KDE. It's got all the features already so I can spend my time writing programs that others will use instead of writing programs that only I will use. In fact, the most time I spend configuring is opening up the settings app and altering shortcuts on a whim. I think I might stick with how I've got it now for a while and I feel like I'm finally gettling into a groove.
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@TuxPeng Could definitely get behind one called ydotool. I can't imagine many commands would match yd which would make tab completing it better.
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That would be cool. Somewhere on one of my myriad CD's I've got a PostScript file that's less than 5k and renders a raycast 3D scene with spheres. When I first ran it on my 533mhz celery some 20 years ago it took about 30 minutes to render. I screenshotted it at the time, but again, myriad CD's.
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@Omnifarious0 Cool. Yeah, you should give it a go. It's always fun to go back and look at old projects.
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Yeah, a developer working for free certainly doesn't owe anyone anything. I'm still not using Wayland myself because several key features don't work, still. Things such as global shortcut keys. Sure, they're working on it, but day to day usage is now, not 6 months from now. Once they fix that I'll give it another try.
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Any idea if that'll replace klipper once KDE goes Wayland only or will they just update klipper and keep using it?
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