probably because meson doesn't have a lot of play outside certain ecosystems.

I like wrapdb, but I'd rather have a real package manager.

It is in freebsd's official handbook, and the openbsd folks have been playing around with it since 2023 at least https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html

I'm not sure how much farther along they are than that post though.

I like the GPL for the kernel, so I wouldn't switch.

What should I do if I like AGPLv3 kernels?

then you'd have a write a new kernel

> Assuming critics are just reflexively resistant is a convenient way to avoid asking whether the criticism has merit. "They'd get it if they were more curious" is unfalsifiable.

I don't know if it can be proven or whatever, but I do know it has changed me.

There have been many events where I thought "hey, why is everybody whining about X thing?". "things are fine the way they are". Until I read more about it and changed my mind.

If it was purely online, I wouldn't take it so seriously.

So whether it can proven empirically or not, I know it changed me.

I assume most of them are just grabbing qt

not the same thing at all. Different userspace that may or may not be that efficient at power, as well as well tested power management in the kernel for specific devices.

because they care about ABI/API stability.

And have an ever decreasing market share, in desktop, hypervisor and server space. The API/ABI stability is probably the only thing stemming the customer leakage at all. It's not the be all and end all.

Decreasing market share in the desktop?

Yes, but Windows is even so bad, it's been decreasing market share of desktops.

that's why they are doing varlink now

that just pushes away the problem ,it doesn't solve it. I still hit that limit when i ran a big compile while some other programs were using a lot of memory.

Please don't erase all the groundwork they've done over the years to make it possible for these later enhancements to happen. It wasn't like they were twiddling their thumbs this whole time!

That's not my intention at all. It's just frustrating how little of it translates to impact that's readily felt by end users, including those of us without technical inclination.

It did and was, it was just something that built up over time as more and paper cuts and small things got fixed. So even if it didn't feel like things were changing, they were.

I've been "gaming" on linux for a long time, and you could see the slow march of progress as more and more stuff worked, and more and more stuff got faster.

This is a good point, the fact that you can just download some video games and run them on your linux desktop with a working desktop environment and so on, even while getting a ton of papercuts, was basically unimaginable 15 years ago.

that's what i was doing 15 years ago! I played a pretty decent amount of games. Every year got better and better.