I recognize that screenshot, pretty sure this was before widespread AI adoption. I can still relate to this guy today, just like I could back when I first saw that comment.

Garbage slop article

"Use google sheets" is an interesting solution in the "selfhosted" community.

That's because the TDS meter doesn't measure contamination from organic sources, unlike your taste buds and nose.

It's a particular flavor of comedy that's pretty dark at times and exposes some societal issues and the unappealing side of humanities vices. It really isn't for everyone and I can understand it being an uncomfortable watch for people who may be able to empathise a bit too much with it. I respect it for really hammering home how disgusting smoking is and I don't think the show should be criticized for being icky, but I would not recommend this to most people.

This is like arguing with someone on the phoronix forums and I'm genuinely disappointed. This isn't basic functionality, it's a complicated design choice and just going: "do it the same way everyone else does lmao it's not that hard" while ignoring all the problems this has caused over the years is incredibly disingenuous. I get it, you just want Windows, or MacOS or whatever traditional, windows inspired never-changing desktop UI you're used to. You don't care about things like different screen shapes, scrollable compositors or enabling new window management strategies. Ironically, most people can already have that with current Wayland compositors. It works fine for the vast majority of users. What's so "ivory tower" and "not real world usage" about that? I'm using it. I have been since before it was made default in Fedora, because it solved my screen tearing issues immediately. I'm using it at work and at home. It's fine. Yes there are missing features. No, it's not "basic functionality" or complete deal breakers for everyone but a tiny subset of users. That obviously doesn't stop some people from blowing it out of proportion apparently.

Fine, pivot to complaining about the pace of development instead. I'm sure everyone who has been successfully using Wayland for years is going to see your vague hints of what's wrong with it and the Wayland devs will go back to working on X.

I should know better than to engage with someone willing to throw around meaningless buzzwords like ivory tower design.

Yes, window management systems that are as old as X have that escape hatch of allowing positioning by global coordinates. It's pretty much impossible to take that ability away from applications when it inevitably becomes an issue.

"You don't want that - I know you don't"

You can try to frame this as pandering, condescending, mean or the devs having a personal vendetta against your workflow all you want, there are tradeoffs with such fundamental design decisions which have been deliberated over a lot. You either make global window position the sole responsibility of the compositor or you expose control to applications and get an unmanageable mess, which you can't fix.

Afaik, there are plans to implement additional client hints which applications can use to indicate desired window positioning or even manage relative position of multiple windows, but they don't involve direct access to the global coordinates. This is mainly a concern for complex multi-window legacy applications which are currently stuck on xwayland. See this for example: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

Do you have an issue that actually requires this or do you just have an issue with how a certain compositor handles window placement?

You mean the way X handled window positioning? Yeah, good riddance. That was always a bad way to handle things and has been a major pain in the ass for window managers that tried to do anything out of the ordinary. Removing that was a deliberate choice. I'm quite happy to trade that anti-feature for HDR, useful VRR support and no tearing, ever.

No. The people who thanklessly maintained X for years have made their choice. If you want to take up that slack, go ahead. The codebase sucks and X has many missing features, some of which Wayland supports or at least can feasibly implement at some point before the heat death of the universe. Every single person that says: "if we put all that effort into X instead we would be better off" has no idea what they are talking about and has clearly never spoken to a developer who actually worked on X.

can't reproduce the functionality we had in the '90s

Good. Fuck the ancient shit that has been collected over the years. There are still missing features that Wayland compositors need at some point and there are things that used to be easier with X, but if you can't actually name anything then I'll just assume you're being contrarian.

Phoronix forum posts should only ever be read as a source of entertainment. The only place where you may find even more ignorant Linux users is Lunduke's comment section. Some of these people genuinely believe that Rust is part of a "woke" conspiracy to weaken FOSS projects. I've read someone unironically call the timing of Rusts increasing popularity "suspicious" because it coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.

*Half a pyramid

That's not entirely true anymore for any of the content feed algorithms of major (social) media platforms. It might influence the majority of recommendations, but it depends on your privacy settings and varies wildly. YouTube in particular will occasionally throw in the most uninteresting, unrelated garbage you have ever witnessed on some pages and that's intentional design to check if you're gonna click on another type of content that they can push you towards.