mycodesucks

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[–] mycodesucks 2 points 4 months ago

It's not that I have issues - it works just fine in the domain it's designed for. It's that the Wayland system does not provide feature parity with X11. I make extensive use of window manipulation using xdotool and wmctrl for my daily use case, and those are both unsupported on Wayland. It's a fine system for users whose use case fit with its design. It is not a feature complete replacement for X11.

[–] mycodesucks 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'll never make the claim that X11 is perfect, but my use case requires features that are either not built into Wayland yet or simply won't be built into it in the future.

I'm sure it's a fine product, but asking me to change my workflow to use it is a non-starter. When it reaches feature complete support of X11 functionality, I'll consider changing.

[–] mycodesucks 1 points 4 months ago

Stable was probably the wrong word. I'll change that to "feature complete".

[–] mycodesucks 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just off the top of my head, Linux Mint, which I know because Waydroid is incompatible with the machines I use in my classrooms. Even if it were compatible, unless the lack of global hotkeys has been addressed changing is a non-starter.

[–] mycodesucks 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

That's a fair point, and it's the Waydroid team's unquestioned right to use whatever technologies they want to build their software on.

But just throwing it out as a solution to a general Linux question when there's a VERY good chance it's incompatible with major distros is omitting critical information.

[–] mycodesucks -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (15 children)

It saddens me to see you being downvoted by the Wayland evangelists when it is CLEARLY not a (EDIT: feature complete) replacement for X11 yet. If I could upvote you twice, I would.

[–] mycodesucks 4 points 4 months ago

That is completely irrelevant. Piracy is already illegal. If you pirate software you can be jailed and/or sued.

Emulation development, however, is completely legal and protected by law and precedent.

[–] mycodesucks 8 points 4 months ago

It's not about either of those. A system emulator is nothing more than a program that converts the hardware instructions of one piece of hardware to another. What you DO with that can be legal or illegal, but the emulator ITSELF is totally legal and requires no justification.

[–] mycodesucks 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do people not understand that piracy is COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY irrelevant to the LEGALITY of emulation?

There is no "Oh, but Nintendo was losing money..."

My electric company loses money when I generate solar power. That doesn't give them the legal right to come to my house and rip out my panels.

The established legal FACT is that emulation is LEGAL.

"But the pirates..."

No, shut up. Emulation is LEGAL. Making and distributing an emulator is LEGAL. And the best way to LOSE that legal right is to misunderstand that you have it and make the public think that there's some legal gray area here. There isn't.

You know what's illegal? PIRACY. And Nintendo has every legal right to go after PIRATES. They DON'T have the legal right to stop development of system emulators. Stop with this nonsense justification, because there isn't one. Nintendo is not legally right on ANY aspect of this.

Repeat after me:

CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING EMULATORS IS COMPLETELY LEGAL BY ESTABLISHED LAW AND LEGAL PRECEDENT AND NINTENDO ILLEGALLY EXTORTED SOMEONE INTO STOPPING A PROJECT.

[–] mycodesucks 9 points 4 months ago (27 children)

Major, MAJOR caveat here.

[–] mycodesucks 6 points 4 months ago

Come on now...

Sometimes when things get rough, a manager will do a LITTLE bit of work. They deserve WAY more credit than Trump.

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