Meme, from top to bottom: (Wayland appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (SystemD appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (Gnome makes massive changes) This is the death of the Linux desktop!
Linux desktop in 2025, having died all the time: over 4.5% marketshare (Michael Jackson as zombie in the background).
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Who said Wayland was going to be the death? (Excluding canonical) Everyone knew X needed to be replaced and that the transition will be slow until its not.

And systemd is not that bad these days. I do think it's more complex than it needs to be and startup is a bit slow, but that's about it.

GNOME making the huge changes inspired the refugees to build Cinnamon and injected some sense into KDE development. Now even GNOME is getting more sensible.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I saw someone giving a talk either about Wayland and they said someone told them they "don't like Wayland because it violates the Unix philosophy." (Do one thing and do it well.) The speaker said they responded by asking "What one thing does X do well?"

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