Trump to meet at White House with American hostage freed from Gaza
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Dunkag
in reply to Ota_1504 • • •Eternal ∞ Fenix
in reply to Dunkag • • •Dunkag
in reply to Eternal ∞ Fenix • • •Linux development right now has a lot of problems caused by the lack of concrete leadership. I felt like I was having a stroke reading the discussions on Wayland's official development page about how they do not want to add any cross-compatibility functionality for setting a main monitor in case software asks for it (i.e. Windows software running through Wine). It's the kind of feature that users expect to have. Lots of Linux software is full of gaps like that, intentional or not. A good OS like SteamOS cannot fix those kinds of pressing issues unless Valve were to outright take over a lot of linux projects.
DarkMahesvara
in reply to Dunkag • • •phoronix and its consequences... there always has been stupid drama and bike shedding in FOSS (how do you think linus gained infamy) the same way it exist in proprietary software you just don't hear about it behind closed doors and NDAs. the average user does not need to care or know about a protocol discussion, the issue only effects wayland native games anyways which do not exist outside of a couple FOSS/Native games. until x11 truly is dead in +5 years and steam has switched to wayland that protocol will have been long created the same way other essential protocols have like screen sharing and variable refresh rate.
>A good OS like SteamOS cannot fix those kinds of pressing issues unless Valve were to outright take over a lot of linux projects.
wrong. valve can simply implement the code themselves that's the whole point and spirit of free and open source software like they already did numerous times e.g. made HDR on x11 work.
Dunkag
in reply to DarkMahesvara • • •@DarkMahesvara @Azur_Fenix All fair and I don't really think the Wayland situation was that pressing since most DEs handle it instead. It's merely an example of a pointless argument that has been drawn out over a year now that forces cross-platform software (i.e. SDL) to uncross-platform itself for sake of Wayland and only Wayland as it doesn't share a standard that every other platform does for this feature. I got it a little incorrect at first and I do apologize for that.
Point was I think drama fucks over FOSS much more since there's far less structure and requirements for any of it. A disagreement can start unrelated to any given project and all of the sudden there's a minefield around with everyone's thoughts and responses. Managers are awful and definitely have issues but there is the benefit of the fact that a manager can force a team to get something users need done. It doesn't matter what happened behind closed doors since the people were paid and forced to make something happen regardless. I'm not championing closed software or anything, rather I'm worried quite a lot of projects have disconcertingly lacking structure. Some would choose to value their political views and arguments over accepting that the guy the disagree with may make good software.
>valve can simply implement the code itself thats the whole point and spirit of free and open source software like they already did numerous times e.g. made HDR on x11 work.
This is good but relies entirely on how others react. I imagine most would be willing to also adopt features. I stretched a bit in what I said though. You're right that it'll at least provide something and would likely benefit overall. Not worthless, just not guaranteed to solve problems across the board. Hopefully Valve's contributions can help make others more usable and provide others with what they need.
I still stand by SteamOS, as it is being developed, cannot prove to be a good desktop OS. It will need a mostly different build to provide that.
DarkMahesvara
in reply to Dunkag • • •@Iffine @Azur_Fenix
>I still stand by SteamOS, as it is being developed, cannot prove to be a good desktop OS
valve has from the get go prioritized the handheld part with the optional desktop part being exactly that. none of the things discussed here would prevent them from prioritizing the desktop part once they target desktop combined with desktop hardware support making it as good as any other proper distro experience