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I've addressed the existence of waypipe before. It's an add-on, an afterthought... not a native part of wayland. Does it work? Seems to. Is it addressing a shortcoming in wayland? Yes. Does that mean the shortcoming is gone in wayland? No.

Familiar with waypipe, it is not an internal piece of Wayland. I know you attempt to address that in your video, but it's missing one argument. Backwards compatibility. Waypipe, and more importantly, Wayland, is not designed for backwards compatibility of network transparency. An X11 terminal is not going to be able to display Wayland or Waypipe remote applications. That is a huge gap. As for 2 processes versus 1 (waypipe not being part of wayland), that might not matter to you, but it means wayland is, and if this continues, will always be incomplete in comparison to X11. This not to say Wayland isn't working for many workflows. Wayland does work for those prefer it, it just leaves various use cases out in the cold. Does it work? For a lot of things, yes. Does it do it right? No. Pedantic view? Certainly, but with reasons. Is the new feature cool? Yes. Should X11 be able to do all of this and become X12, absolutely. Does the fact that it hasn't happen bother many of us? Yes. Are we a majority? Doesn't seem so. Will we continue to be noisy about it? Likely. Will anyone care? Likely not. Will it annoy folks? Probably. Will we care? Not really. We didn't get what we want, so we aren't happy. Will we eventually have to move over to Wayland? Unfortunately. Might it be better? Possibly. Will we like if it's better? Certainly not, it wasn't done correctly, and that matters to some of us. Do I want more videos trying to convince me to like Wayland sent to me in response, despite it not being the X12 we wanted? Not really. Long story short, it does what it does, and even if great, it didn't do it in the way we wanted and we want to complain about it forever. Toss it in with systemd, same mindset. It does a job well, but not how we wanted it, and not living within the scopes we think it should. I use it every day, but will always hate it for that. Thanks for your primary topic video, it was cool. I just lament that it leaves X11 devices further behind for a technology that while neat, was built ideologically incorrectly and to the wrong audience. Now anyone and everyone trying to convert us into liking Wayland, despite it being cool, forget it. Won't happen. Fundamentally it was made wrong. Does cool stuff, but didn't go about it the way an X server implementation could be backward compatible with, hence it's simply wrong. X11 can remotely display to it, but not the other way around. The fact that there are bunch, likely even a majority, that don't seem to care about that is maddening, and that they so proudly don't give a darn about it, makes us hate Wayland even more. Will it matter? Probably not. Do I hope it matters, and some X12 perfection comes about and smites all the Wayland lovers? Probably yes. Because they are wrong, wrong on the internet, and like the XKCD, we have to obsess over those we see as wrong on the internet. :)