Total centralization of the Linux Eco system isn’t good for anyone. But total fragmentation where there’s a million different distros that can all do basically the same thing isn’t good either.
Wayland and Flatpak are great projects though. Love seeing them get more adoption.
I mean, they’re never gonna be finished if people don’t migrate to them and work on them. A lot of the wayland issues like “wayland breaks X” is because of the devs of said app rather than wayland itself. Kinda like adobe products and Linux, it ain’t linux that’s breaking them.
do you really expect people, who do this work in their free time out of the goodness of their heart, to release fully finished products that are supposed to work 100% flawlessly right from the get-go? maybe FOSS isn’t the right space for you then.
There are projects that beg to differ. PipeWire, a perfect example. The author thought it wasn’t stable enough even though some distros addopted it as default. He switched to version 1.0 a few months ago.
And I do also use non-FOSS software. I use whatever I like, I don’t discriminate, FOSS or not. Sure, it’d be great if every piece of software was open source, but hey, things are what they are 🤷. DaVinci Resolve is closed source, but there are a lot of things NLE video editors can learn from it.
Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg
I can’t deny that maybe some larger company allocated resources to the project, even if, to me, it seems like no large company is directly funding the project right now, and Kristian seems like he hasn’t really participated in the development of wayland for the past year or so. The fact remains that it’s a FOSS project and you aren’t a paying customer, so IMO it’s kinda ridiculous to complain about it not being perfect right away. Work on improving it if you think it’s so bad.
There are pros and cons.
Total centralization of the Linux Eco system isn’t good for anyone. But total fragmentation where there’s a million different distros that can all do basically the same thing isn’t good either.
Wayland and Flatpak are great projects though. Love seeing them get more adoption.
Great projects, but far from a finished product.
I mean, they’re never gonna be finished if people don’t migrate to them and work on them. A lot of the wayland issues like “wayland breaks X” is because of the devs of said app rather than wayland itself. Kinda like adobe products and Linux, it ain’t linux that’s breaking them.
do you really expect people, who do this work in their free time out of the goodness of their heart, to release fully finished products that are supposed to work 100% flawlessly right from the get-go? maybe FOSS isn’t the right space for you then.
There are projects that beg to differ. PipeWire, a perfect example. The author thought it wasn’t stable enough even though some distros addopted it as default. He switched to version 1.0 a few months ago.
And I do also use non-FOSS software. I use whatever I like, I don’t discriminate, FOSS or not. Sure, it’d be great if every piece of software was open source, but hey, things are what they are 🤷. DaVinci Resolve is closed source, but there are a lot of things NLE video editors can learn from it.
that’s not at all what they said but stay angry nerd
I didn’t realise Red Hat, SUSE, Microsoft etc. didn’t pay their staff?
are they working on wayland?
From the first result on Google:
So yeah, I suspect Red Hat does in some way contribute to development. As I’m sure does Microsoft, Canonical etc.
None of this happens in a vacuum.
This is what I found:
I can’t deny that maybe some larger company allocated resources to the project, even if, to me, it seems like no large company is directly funding the project right now, and Kristian seems like he hasn’t really participated in the development of wayland for the past year or so. The fact remains that it’s a FOSS project and you aren’t a paying customer, so IMO it’s kinda ridiculous to complain about it not being perfect right away. Work on improving it if you think it’s so bad.