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On 22/10/2025 22:05, druck wrote:
> On 22/10/2025 14:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> There is a general rule that after a time, any chunk of software is so 
>> full of bodges and patches and hacked on bug fixes and cruft that is 
>> worth rewriting from the ground up.
> 
> It's a great way of creating a whole new set of bodges and bugs, by 
> throwing away all the years of knowledge and bug fixes.
> 
Yes, but usually from a better starting point

> The Wayland crew decided to avoid some of this by simply not 
> implementing great chunks of functionality and refusing to ever get to 
> feature parity with X11.
> 
Indeed. My one experience of trying to run X over a network revealed 
dire performance and flaky behaviour.

Like, who needs it?

> ---druck

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diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential 
survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations 
into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with 
what it actually is.



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