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  • I take it you’ve never done any serious software development.

    No matter how much they try, the in-house testing environment will never be as diverse as the “wild”. Running the software in production, where it will encounter a vastly greater range of system configurations, and users who will report issues, is often the only way to catch the more elusive bugs. Like xz. And let me point it out because people seem to have completely missed it: they caught the bug and fixed it.






  • What sounds like gatekeeping is often a strongly worded emphasis on having the prerequisite knowledge to not just host your services, but do it in a way that is secure, resilient, and responsible. If you don’t know how to set up a network, set up a resilient storage, manage your backups, set up HTTPS and other encryption solutions, manage user authentication and privileges, and expose your services securely, you should not be self-hosting. You should be learning how to self-host responsibly. That applies to everything from Debian to Synology.

    Friends don’t let friends expose their networks like Nintendo advises.



  • Unless I’m terribly misunderstanding the word’s meaning (or anglophones once again redefined a word to reflect their current sensibilities), “conservative” doesn’t automatically imply politics, just that someone is resistant to new ideas. A person who only listens to music produced before the 20th century and goes into a rage when video game music composers are mentioned is a conservative, but not in terms of political views.


  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldFeature parity or get out
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    Yes, the people who refuse to either upgrade to Win11-compatible hardware or move to an OS compatible with their existing hardware will eventually get left behind. Both in terms of security and compatibility. It’s happened many times, from the fall of AGP in favour of PCIE, to every time Intel inroduced a new CPU socket. X11 is the next.



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    It’s more of an “it’s still experimental” kind of issue. They’re releasing the Wayland session into the wild before it’s ready to boost the pace of bug-squashing. X11 remains default, but they allow the people who want to contribute (instead of whine on public forums about missing features) to test the Wayland session on a much greater variety of hardware and OS configurations than could ever be achieved in-house, report bugs, break things, and submit changes.



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    That’s what happens when you use an experimental feature that is actively being developed and receiving improvements over time. Transitioning an X11 stack to Wayland is not as simple as flipping on a build flag.

    Keyboard support has been implemented and will arrive in 22.3:

    Wayland support

    Under the hood, the Cinnamon keyboard handling relied on libgnomekbd and only worked in Xorg.

    This meant that Cinnamon under Wayland could only be used with an English (US) layout.

    This new support is fully compatible with Wayland for both traditional layouts and IBus input methods.



  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldHow?
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    It looks like GNOME is the only compositor that doesn’t support the wlr_layer_shell protocol, which is anything but surprising. Smithay works (Cosmic and Niri), wlroots works, Kwin and Mir work, Aquamarine (Hyprland) is not listed, but I know that it works.