Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Posted Jun 13, 2025 9:18 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Boy who cried wolf in reverse? by mb
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg
This is the same attitude as "Rust sucks - I tried to compile ripgrep for my machine with GCC-rs, and it didn't work at all. Clearly Rust is not ready to use in serious code".
Wayland is a protocol used to communicate between clients and servers. X11 is a protocol used to communicate between clients and servers. labwc is one implementation of a Wayland server; it's not the only one, and it's working as intended by the developers.
Other implementations of the Wayland protocol exist (I'm using KDE Plasma 6.3 as the server side here, with various clients such as Firefox, KMail and XWayland), and will have different issues.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:10 UTC (Fri)
by mb (subscriber, #50428)
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Did you actually read my post?
>and will have different issues.
That's my point.
Currently there is *no* way for me to use Wayland. And therefore the claims that Wayland was production ready that I hear since over a decade are just meaningless.
You may like it or not. But it is what it is.
That's obviously a *completely* different thing than "I don't like riprep, therefore Rust sucks".
Show me one compositor that just works (tm) like Xfce on X11 (and is not Gnome) and I will shut up.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:23 UTC (Fri)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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Exactly; for my use cases the Wayland compositor I'm using now works *better* than its X11 equivalent.
> Show me one compositor that just works (tm) like Xfce on X11 (and is not Gnome) and I will shut up.
Sounds like you want a specific desktop environment, not a "compositor" per se.
If the Xfce folks finish their nascent port to Wayland [1], you may get your wish. If not, you're free to ask for your money back.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:31 UTC (Fri)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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KDE Plasma 6.4 works just fine for me; I don't know what's different about your setup to mine that means that it doesn't work for you. But KDE Plasma 6.3 and 6.4 and GNOME 40 have all been fine as Wayland setups for me.
And no, it's not obviously different - you're excluding things that are known to work, and then saying that Wayland as a whole does not work because, when you exclude the implementations that work, the remaining implementations don't work.
When I put it like that, it's obvious why your statement is problematic - you're excluding implementations that are known to work well for other people, and saying that the protocol is not ready, because you as one person cannot make it work after you exclude the implementations that do work. But you get upset when I try to do the same with Rust.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:42 UTC (Fri)
by mb (subscriber, #50428)
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KDE, labwc and Xfce-Wayland don't work for me.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:45 UTC (Fri)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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And you still haven't answered my question; which Rust compiler produces production ready code, apart from rustc which doesn't work for me? Or are you saying that Rust isn't ready for production use, too?
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:48 UTC (Fri)
by mb (subscriber, #50428)
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I don't know *why* it doesn't work.
>And you still haven't answered my question
I have.
Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:49 UTC (Fri)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Posted Jun 13, 2025 13:50 UTC (Fri)
by mb (subscriber, #50428)
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Posted Jun 13, 2025 14:39 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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For me, everything seems to work "good enough", but I can understand people not being willing to put up with it. I like KDE, so I do.
Cheers,
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
I tried lots of them.
So far, I found none that works properly.
All of them have issues and none of them work as good as X11.
That's simply the reality that I face since a decade.
On lots of different machines, lots of different combinations of compositors and whatever.
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Show me one Rust compiler that just works for compiling ripgrep such that it outperforms GNU grep (and is not rustc).
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Anything else is fine.
Please tell me. Which one should I test next?
I heard Wayland was ready for use. So which one is it that works? Is it really only Gnome?
Why doesn't KDE work for you? KDE Plasma 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 had some bugs that affected me (but broadly worked for me, as long as I didn't trip up the bugs), but Plasma 6.4 just works, and works better than it does running over X11 to X.org as server.
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
But I tried it a couple of days ago and it did not work at all.
Crashes, not working buttons, hanging unresponsive UI, etc. It was completely unusable.
I missed it - which Rust compiler did you say was production ready for arbitrary Rust code, apart from rustc, which I'm excluding for reasons that I won't discuss with you?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Boy who cried wolf in reverse?
Wol