2026-10-27 01:01 UTC
This was what I thought for about 15 seconds and then it was explained to me that while Wayland treats the Linux *desktop environment ecosystem* like a total stranger, it apparently freely takes dependencies on a wide variety of very specific Linux kernel quirks and
(EDIT: I think some linux desktop specific freedesktop/XDG daemon that was mentioned the last time I asked about this on here, but that's being questioned so now I'm not sure?)
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems 2026-10-27 01:18
@mcc@mastodon.social one of the really really nice things about wayland is that it doesn't couple the window server and the GPU, meaning you can render any window on any GPU and graphics stack, or even in software. furthermore the GPUs can be hotplugged and hot-unplugged this was de-facto unsolvable on Xorg and this problem alone is enough to leave it in the past