I just hope Wayland has its accessibility shit together before then. There are people that still need to use X11 for their accessibility needs.
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Fr, accessibility is def important and they’re not giving it enough attention
The future is now old man. KDE next.
I s2g im gonna become one of those psychos who runs the oldest Debian that still gets security updates behind a pfsense with whitelisting.
You already said Debian. The rest is redundant.
Please forgive me, as a Debian user I’m prone to senior moments and will soon have my driving license legally revoked.
It's okay. That's how you know how stable we are.
Debian users are so stable, that they're not allowed on planes.
Debian users are so stable, that the Higgs boson was only found once thet had left the room.
I have more mild disses.
Stares in Debian Testing. (Though I use Bookworm on my laptop, probably soon to be Trixie. Nice thing about Trixie is I'll no longer have to use the Backports kernel on my Thinkpad and can just stay on the LTS one.)
I was looking for some excitement in my life so I installed Arch on my primary device.
I'm disappointed. I've had zero issues.
Okay, one issue, but I had that with Debian too. (recovering from sleep mode)
I really wish Wayland was more fleshed out & stable before all of this happened. Color management isn’t even yet finalized & putting accurate colors on the screen is like the most important part.
I really wish Arcan were further along.
til about arcan. how is it better than wayland?
We live in a wild world where people feel so confident about the wayland snake oil that they only added color in 2024!
I'm using a 49" monitor and dividing it up in virtual X11 monitors/screens for flexibility. Running a tiling window manager with lots of virtual desktops, but with fullscreen support separate monitors are still needed. Wayland are still missing the support for dividing up the display, which is probably the last thing keeping me on X11.
Let's just hope XFCE can finish the transition before then. If not, I am not looking forward to having to shop for a new DE.
XFCE is still using GTK 3, why would they care what Gnome does with GTK 5? Nobody but Gnome is even using GTK 4.
Not necessarily - pavucontrol switched to GTK4, and there are a lot of other applications that I use that are on it as well. If XFCE stays on X11, I wouldn't be able to run any application that updates to GTK5 (except through some hack like running Weston nested in X, which I used to do when I used Waydroid).
It's true that there are some apps not directly associated with any DE that have moved to GTK4. If GTK5 actually was likely to come out any time soon you might have to worry about finding alternatives when they switch to GTK5. That being said though, GTK3 had been out for over 9 years before GTK4 came along, there were 4 years between the "last" version of GTK3 and GTK 4.0.0, they're still in the "oh, this is what we'll probably do when we release GTK5" phase of development, XFCE has already made a bunch of progress porting everything over to Wayland, and DE agnostic apps are less likely to switch over right away if mid-size DEs like XFCE and Cinnamon still don't have good Wayland support. I wouldn't stress out about it too much.
The lack of proper tablet support in wayland prevents me from being excited for this. I wish there was more news on that front.
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Oh no...
Anyways, another reason why to use Qt rather than GTK for your app.
Will QT 7 Do the same?