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New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:25:37 +0000

Nope, there has been tons of commits in regard of X11, code refractions, bug fixes and new features, in the past 17 years. Yes most of them blocked for the sake of ideology, not conspiracy, it's more like a religious thinking.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:06:04 +0000

Nope, I stopped using Apple devices in early 2019. I can't accept their attitude anymore, of deciding what I'm allowed to install on my hardware. macOS is a bit more open than iOS, but is every year shifting more and more into the same direction.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:54:43 +0000

Or just install Windows, install Deskflow, do my job, earn my money, pay my bills, go on vacation, take a sun bath and stop using an OS developed by people wearing thin foil aluminum hats.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:48:04 +0000

Of course redhat is indirectly enforcing it, by having people in key roles of the KDE, GNOME,systemd and wayland development, who are making decisions, accepting or blocking ideas and commits. It all goes hand in hand and is mainly driven by the key "Sponsors".

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:09:35 +0000

Here it just works to the left or right, tried multiple distributions Fedora, Arch, CashyOS, NixOS, no way. Perhaps an issue with NVIDIA drivers, running a 5090 here.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:58:52 +0000

Fully agree, same here. It's just sad to keep watching this, because now just after approx. 15 years i started to evaluate the Linux Desktop again and it failed again. Many professional software like Maya, Houdini, Unreal, etc. that used to run great on Linux/X11, now sucks on wayland. Some are hyping Linux for the subpar gaming compatibility, while for GameDev Windows is still required. In 15 years I'll try again, but then I'm probably to old for this.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:43:37 +0000

It's just some of the so many reasons why the "Year of the Linux Desktop" will never see the light. Linux is doomed to run mainly headless on a dark chamber hardware. As always when the Linux Desktop is just starting to take off, somebody comes up with a new great self destructive idea(wayland), it always has been like that and probably will never change.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

wildredkraut — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:08:57 +0000

Yeah? Then try to drag out a tab of firefox or GNOME files to the upper direction, good luck. Then check how "awful" Blender 5.1 titlebar and window frame integrates to GNOME. Have fun trying to make Deskflow/Synergy working on GDM.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

wildredkraut — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:01:11 +0000

And a good selfie cam for their duck faces.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech"

wildredkraut — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:30:07 +0000

Well, not only this, the private movement of avoiding American stuff is also getting stronger in the EU. Somehow it's like game in the store, YESSsss, +1:EU -1:US. It's feels so satisfying to find and buy alternatives to US products where it's possible, from tech over clothes to food. Somehow Trump is doing the EU a favor by pushing us to become independent again. It will take time, but we'll get there.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Apple Creator Studio"

wildredkraut — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:58:45 +0000

lol, what a money grab.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

wildredkraut — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:30:17 +0000

Well, I simply don't accept nor attend meetings that are setup directly after another meeting. There must be also time to pee, poop, drink, prepare, etc. in between them. At least 30mins gaps between meetings is a must have for me.

But yeah, this guy work for google, says it all.

New comment by wildredkraut in "OLED, Not for Me"

wildredkraut — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:49:40 +0000

Same here, running MacType/Windows on a 65" LG 4k OLED C5 TV with 100% scaling as my main display for all kind of stuff incl. coding. But i must admit that fonts on Linux looks noticeable better out of the box and MacType/Windows does not apply to all applications. E.g. for LibreOffice i had to change the rendering engine(disable skia) under options and on PDFGear MacType does not apply at all.

Anyway, OLED is great, I'm sitting 2 arm length away from the panel.

People complaining are probably Gen.Z that never sat in-front of an ol' CRT in the 90s and are spoiled by smartphones running 4k on minuscule 7" displays with 460ppi.

New comment by wildredkraut in "SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection"

wildredkraut — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:38:43 +0000

Good ol' times :) Cheers to all the ex. Efnet and Underworld #warezgraphics, #warezart, #3dee, #3dwarez, #3dgfx, #warez3d fellas.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

wildredkraut — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:58:51 +0000

Well, Teams does the job(listen to bigger events and waste productivity with chit chat)

New comment by wildredkraut in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

wildredkraut — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:20:13 +0000

Confident politics and military, meaningful future proof investments, innovation in modern tech areas like CPU/GPU, AI, EV, Mobiles, etc. there is a lot.

What else, hmmm... Ohhh yes digitization, we "Germans" still can't let our FAXing machines go.

What we are good at, outsourcing and riding into deeper dependency of other continents.

New comment by wildredkraut in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

wildredkraut — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:35:03 +0000

Wow this site, logo and everything is so ugly. But the FAX styled photos fits well to Europe's deficit.

New comment by wildredkraut in "Helium Browser"

wildredkraut — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:47:30 +0000

Releasing a browser without cross OS support incl. mobile devices, makes no sense now a days. Extension support and bookmarks sync is also a must have. That's why Firefox is still my browser.

New comment by wildredkraut in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

wildredkraut — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:14:00 +0000

Seems like >=2026 will be the year I'll start buying stuff again that has been replaced by mobile phones during all the years (Camera, Mp3Player, etc.) With this coming, buying a flagship mobile phone simply doesn't worth for me anymore. Currently i own a S24Ultra, my next mobile phone will probably be the cheapest Chinese crap I can get, just for the mobile things i "have" to use it.

New comment by wildredkraut in "GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?""

wildredkraut — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:30:01 +0000

50 years ago... echo "Blueberry" | tr -cd 'bB' | wc -c ... 2

50 years and $50 billion investment later ... 3

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