That’s the thing though, there are alternatives now. They just take more discovery and setup time than most are used to.

If it’s not insisting, it’s demanding, which is worse.

There are many tools now that replace X11 behavior. If Wayland doesn’t “do what they need”, at this point there’s a strong chance they have not put in any effort into making it work for them.

For desktop forwarding there’s waypipe.

For tablet users, KDE (And probably gnome) have pretty good tablet support at this point.

For artists, KDE JUST got much better color calibration and HDR support.

For gamers, WINE now has an experimental Wayland-native mode, and barring that we have Gamescope to make it behave semi-native (so this one is more of a future-ish solution that you can use now).

Screen recording mostly just works with pipewire and almost everything supports it now including Discord.

Etc.

Those users can stick with the last version of KDE or GNOME that supports X11. They’re insisting on using unmaintained software already, so it shouldn’t be much of a leap to do the same with the DE.

It’s really not fair to demand that people building your DE for free maintain two vastly different rendering stacks when they clearly don’t want to.

You can say it in as many posts as you like, that doesn’t make you right.

Depends entirely on the area.

Some places have 12 sitting on a shelf all weekend, others can’t keep them in stock for 5 minutes. Your area sounds like one of the 5-minute ones.

Overall this launch has had a lot more supply and/or lower demand than the Switch 1 so its been somewhat easier, but still kinda crazy.

73% of plasma 6 installs with telemetry enabled are using Wayland

I think that the fantasy of X11 sticking around forever is sweet, but the writing is on the wall.

I don’t fish myself, just thought the ridiculousness of the hat was funny.

Early!

Naw it’s okay, you can keep the upvotes lol, it was just one of those deer-in-headlights wait a minute moments. Had you actually nabbed the meme from me, it would have been an honor. It’s not every day your memes get reposted.

A little secret for you: I didn’t make the hat of course but I did steal the image by cropping it out of another one. The margins around the outside looked nearly identical at first and that’s what got me.

Did you just your joke but louder me?

I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.

The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.

They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.

And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.

Well, in the case of the liberux and the 9 pro, you get a lot more storage space built in (very fast storage), way more RAM, etc.

Its up to you whether that’s all worth it. To me it is, I max out sub-$400 phones very quickly. The pinephone feels very choppy to use too by comparison.

Wow, that’s quite the difference. What’s more shocking to me though is the fact that the rockchip somehow is built to handle a higher resolution than the tensor despite being weaker (8k@60fps vs 4k@60fps), and has AV1 support where the tensor doesn’t.

Based kolanaki in the comments

“You might want to change your password”

On what?

Try premade meal replacements like huel lol.

You want abliterated models, not distilled.

That’s a good callout. I’m not super familiar with it, do you know how it might bench against the Tensor G4?