Linux might be a bit hacked together and monolithic, but I don’t know about fucked. Some hardware is shitty and locked down, but probably still not the majority.
I say GUI metaphor should happen in hardware. Without the same old fixed frames-per-second, we don’t use CRT anymore.
It’s all but brittle sandcastles we build on hardware made for number-crunching in servers, same like a web-GUI is inferior because it runs on a Document Object Model. Just leads to more bugs and security issues. That we still need to decide between immediate and retained mode rendering, why is that a software question?
Or (GUI) icon painting, that should at least be a kernel call, not something you as a dev have to fiddle around with sizes and alignment on.
Yesyes, i know, backwards-compatibility and market share.
In what way?
Linux might be a bit hacked together and monolithic, but I don’t know about fucked. Some hardware is shitty and locked down, but probably still not the majority.
I say GUI metaphor should happen in hardware. Without the same old fixed frames-per-second, we don’t use CRT anymore.
It’s all but brittle sandcastles we build on hardware made for number-crunching in servers, same like a web-GUI is inferior because it runs on a Document Object Model. Just leads to more bugs and security issues. That we still need to decide between immediate and retained mode rendering, why is that a software question?
Or (GUI) icon painting, that should at least be a kernel call, not something you as a dev have to fiddle around with sizes and alignment on.
Yesyes, i know, backwards-compatibility and market share.