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Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/5946015

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed...

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[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ugh, if I hope I never hear the phrase "Year of the Linux Desktop" again

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 34 points 10 months ago

I don't know what people are expecting to happen with the Linux desktop. If there was ever a year of the Linux desktop, it was probably in the mid-2000s, when Ubuntu made the Linux desktop usable for regular people and promoted it with free installation CDs.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

But this is the year of the Linux desktop

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 8 points 10 months ago

I'd say, by my metric of what "Year if the Linux Desktop" is, 2022 was that year. Absolutely everything came together and finally all clicked in. Not saying everything is perfect, but it works, works well, and has support for the majority of games made for Windows.

[–] riquisimo@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

It's just a plutonian year, so like, it's a lot of earth-years.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, 👍 This is the year for sure! Mhmm. No way all these minor fixes to an overly complex OS aren't the solution THIS time. /s

[–] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Overly complex? That's a baffling thing to say about any operating system when they are all insanely complicated. Windows and MacOS and a typical desktop Linux distro contain more code than a single human could write in a lifetime.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Overly complex to the end user. Most end users don't care how much code or internal complexity there is. AI generation is very complex but the interface is just regular English or whatever human language.

These semantic misunderstandings are all over the Linux community and it's reflective in the OS layout.