This is a thread about slow uptake by programs of Wayland.

X works for me.

This is a thread about slow uptake by programs of Wayland.

X works for me.

What is there to explain?

Please explain.

you think the distros have to implement their own version of Wayland?

Nope. They do have to test their own shit.

Why make a change when one can just not?

But why would the distros do that? It takes effort and has real costs for them.

It is not enough to make a better product.

It is not enough to create all tooling and libraries to seamlessly migrate to the new product, but it helps.

There also needs to be a great big positive reason to make the change. Paying developers, huge user base, the only hardware support, great visuals, etc.

Until I cannot run software on X11, I won’t switch over knowingly.

Thank you for pulling the image out.

This talk surprised me at the time. I was starting the eye opening experience of design hardware. Linux more orchestrates the hardware than controlling it.

To avoid convo in multiple places, it is in reply to message you replied to.

USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It’s Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo

At 19:22

RISC-V is better for Linux due to driver support. Vendors making hardware are more likely to use RISK-V for their controllers due to the costs. Modern computers are putting more functions under control of kernels that run on proprietary compute. (There exists a chart showing how little the Linux kernel directly controls.) As more of those devices run RISC-V, they will become more discoverable.
Also, those that can design or program tge devices will have more transferrable skills. Leading to the best designs spreading, and all designs improving.

Places in a computer with compute (non-exhaustive, not all candidates for RISC-V):
BMC
Soundcard (or subsystem on mainboard)
Video card (GPU and the controller for the GPU)
Storage drives
Networking
Drive interface controlling card
Mainboard (not BMC)
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
UPS
Printer

Will it be perfect? Nope.
A lot of the vendors will lock things up as well.

“Easier” and “simpler” are in the eye of the beholder.

A different way to approach it is to limit the failure domains. If this breaks how sad are you?

I would separate storage from the rest. Networking stuff together may be fine. Home assistant depends on how dependent on it your household is.

The only people I have known with certs didn’t have educations. Generally, the fewer degrees, the more certs. There are exceptions.

If you have a PhD or Masters, then certifications are unlikely worth it.

If you don’t have a Bachelors, then certs are critical. Many jobs will just reject you.

A Bachelors is where certs seem to do the most good.

All of this in my part of the USA (Midwest and West) and speciality (HPC). I have been involved in hiring in several organizations.

I have not had an issue mixing and matching drives in a hardware or software RAID. Just needs to be at least as big as the previous.

I have had issues with non-vendor drives in Dell and/or HP systems.

(I am a pro, but not your pro.)

It is telling there is no AI tax prep, or any other field with legal consequences for being wrong.

I am wrong, they exist. Just not flashy.

It is a natural study. Just compare rates to those of nearby towns. Possibility very fast to do.

Yes! It is great.

Any more I reencode for local streaming to my TV.

The Linux community has never been of one mind on anything. We have always been against, and for, everything.

Some distro or project will integrate AI, or not, and it will be forked. And then forked again.

Many AI models are run on Linux. Linux won’t be left behind in any real sense. Linux won’t lose market share over this.

Linux developers paid by AI firms will integrate it into products. Those that volunteer will make their own decisions.

Let’s return to roots. Warcraft 3 mod maps.

If there is sufficient RAM on the laptop, Linux will cache a lot of metadata in other cache layers without NFS-Cache.

NFS-Cache is a specific cache for NFS, and does not represent all caching that can be done of files over NFS. “Direct I/O” is also a specific thing, and should not be generalized in the meanings of “direct” and “I/O”.

Let’s skip those entirely for now as I cannot simply explain either. I doubt either will matter in your use case, but look back if performance lags.

One laptop accessing one NFS share will have good performance on a quite local network.

NFS is an old protocol that is robust and used frequently. NFSv3 is not encrypted. NFSv4 has support for encryption. (ZeroTier can handle the encryption.)

SSHFS is a pseudo file system layered over SSH. SSH handles encryption. SSHFS is maybe 15 years old and is aimed at convenience. SSH is largely aimed at moving streams of text between two points securely. Maybe it is faster now than it was.