loutr

loutr , vor 28 Tagen

It is controversial because:

• "the economy" needs to keep destroying nature. Here in France when the farmers went on strike, all the right talked about was how environmental regulations were the main issue and needed to be curbed.

• the ecological crisis is fake news pushed by leftists to distract us from the real issue, which is obviously brown people invading the west to replace white people.

loutr , vor 28 Tagen

I'll point to her when people say "I don't vote because all politicians are corrupt assholes".

loutr , vor einem Monat

Works great on my laptop. It takes automatic snapshots before and after running the package manager, no problem so far.

loutr , vor 2 Monaten

Because having each piece of software do it itself would be not only chaos but a massive security concern.

Not really, the main point is that (most) apps don't know where they are on the screen, whether they're minimized, on the active workspace, ... and they don't care either. That's the responsibility of the window manager.

The app tells the display server "I need a window to display these pixels" and that's it. And the window manager, well, manages these windows.

On the topic of security, X11 doesn't handle security at all, that's one of the main issues. So any graphical app can read the other windows' pixels, grab everything you type, everything you copy, ... OTOH Wayland isolates apps so they can't do that by default. Apps that really need to (screenshot apps, ...) can use "portals" to ask for these permissions.

loutr , vor 2 Monaten

Yep that's also the WM's job.

loutr , vor 4 Monaten

The debate is as old as Linux itself, and well documented.