[Lug-nuts] Re: Wayland

I am mad. I bought a book about "Enshittification". The title pretty much says it all. I found a link from one of Brian's post about what is going on with X and the guy who is making a fork. It really changed my mind on forks being churn. I'm looking into making my own disto. But that is just crazy ;) But, don't look too hard, the kernel is turning into a piece of work too. How do you deal with that? It's just IBM, and others, trying to make a buck off of something that they provide for free. I'm sure, at the end of the day, there will be some kind of subscription. I'm glad you made it back. Sorry we didn't fix anything while you were away. But, it is swimming against the current. Look at mailing list. I think they're generally great. What do people use now: X, Slack, Facebook, and their ilk. I like this list, and I'd really like to revive mailing list in general, but I don't know how LOL. And I feel warm knowing that we don't have a giant corporate overlord. But, in our favor is that Wayland is really poor, right now. It is going to cost someone a bunch of money to fix that. And most of the user community is happy with X. So they are going to try to break X. Embrace, Enhance, Eliminate. I'm keeping my eye on the X fork. I think the kernel is only at the Embrace, Enhance step. But, somehow, someone, wants a subscription there. It's nothing new. The room is cheap, but there is a resort fee that you don't get to know until it's too late. Fooled me once. I've never been back. But, I see that they are all doing just fine. Cable TV. This economic model has roots and most people don't care. Like they don't care how much the car cost, just what are the payments. The fact that they went from 3 year loans to 7 year loans doesn't seem to bother most people. They are just getting around to implementing that model on Linux. And, this is the door they chose. On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote: