2026-10-27 00:59 UTC
Okay so the hilarious thing is, one year ago I wanted to use Linux as a desktop operating system, so I was really angry Wayland was not designed to enable writing GUI applications for Linux. Wayland seems to have been designed as a kind of super-EGL, a surface negotiation protocol for embedded touchscreen devices. Now one year later I want to get Linux off my computer at any cost and I'm going hmmm so you're saying your surface negotiation protocol has NO Linux baggage…?
https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/01a17ad8-0a53-72af-91bd-6b91e7c25b7a
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-10-27 01:05
@mcc@mastodon.social me: please give me a pointer to a framebuffer with the pixels in the order they will appear on the screen Wayland: that’s to hard. here are some extension protocols I think you’ll like. do you like this
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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-10-27 01:01
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?)