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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu, The Pussy Distro, Is Going Rust
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:20:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-03-24 3:05 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-24 12:12 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:58:02 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Seven months seems like a lot for people who do nothing but program, but
>>>>> it will probably take an eternity for these guys to sort everything out.
>>>>> Let's not forget that Wayland is _still_ not ready many years after
>>>>> being announced.
>>>>
>>>> Strange, since I have two different distros using Wayland.
>>>
>>> They use it, but there's a reason that a lot of distributions like Linux
>>> Mint haven't yet defaulted to it: it's problematic. Those problems
>>> relate to it not being a finished product.
>> 
>> I've tried the experimental version of Wayland in Linux Mint. It had some
>> issues — some of it was compatibility issues with older applications, but it
>> also had issues with streaming videos. Noticeable blotches in the dark
>> portions of the videos (are these "artifacts"?). I think, however, Wayland
>> is working okay in Fedora. (I'll have to double check now.)
>
> It did work well in Fedora, even with NVIDIA. On the other hand, I 
> routinely had to reinstall the driver in that distribution and Wayland 
> might have been the reason. It's unlikely, but I truly have no idea why 
> it repeatedly broke, even on a fresh install.
>
>> But, mainly, I see no real reason to change. X11 works well for me. I kind of
>> feel the same about "moving to Rust."
>
> I wouldn't feel comfortable using it unless every one of the tools 
> reaches full compatibility. DFS has alleviated my concerns about 
> performance, and Rust itself seems to be a language in which bugs are 
> less likely. At least, that's what the articles I've read are 
> suggesting. Much like Wayland, I'll have to take a wait and see approach.

And I'm guessing, as you mentioned, the wait will be longer than what 
they're currently claiming. But we'll see. I know there was a lot of 
controversy over the SystemD(?) boot loader when it came out but I never ran 
into any problems with it. I think Caldera (one of my original experiments 
with Linux) used something called "LILO" as the boot loader.

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