It would have been crazy if I had done that. Did you reply to the correct comment?

Were you able to achieve your desired results?

I should tag myself as a bot, that would be funny.

Whomst is the “they” in this reply? Did you mean to reply to me?

If you want scrollwork you use a scroll saw. If you want molding you use a router table.

If you want to make some other distro look like Omarchy you use an llm.

The distro of which youre trying to duplicate the setup you had is very ai forward. If youre trying to do something the omarchy way that would be using ai.

I do whenever possible. If you’ll remember, I replied to the ops query about why wayland is the way it is.

A better question is why are you replying to me over and over again asking circular questions?

I already answered that. I don’t think wayland should exist let alone be fixed and even if I wanted to I described the development environment around it as sclerotic and sycophantic.

What are you trying to say here?

It clearly has a serious problem that the op is experiencing. Why not help the op instead of dismissing their concerns? It really seems like you’re trolling or at least engaging in bad faith here…

So people trying to use it could more easily do so.

Because you believe in the principles behind it and want to bring them in harmony with the ops problem.

As an action in support of the open source principles you espouse, improving the commons for no other reason than your empathy and love for the human spirit!

Because you’re fine with wayland.

The op is flailing, trying to use the system you’re at the very least fine with but I now suspect you feel a certain affinity towards but they can’t. They can’t use wayland unless you help. Their various windows are shuffled on top of one another and require the use of a mouse to switch between. You could be helping the op instead of trolling. But you’re not.

Why are you not helping the op, umbrella?

I don’t want to fix wayland. Wayland is bad.

Even if my heartfelt love for the op overcame my revulsion for wayland I would not put any effort into fixing this issue because the structural problems with wayland make it a battle with an entrenched system of powerful organizations with skin in the game and outspoken users looking for a fight as opposed to a simple pr.

Think for a second about the context of what you are aligning yourself with in these replies to me: wayland, a collection of protocols and apis in a trenchcoat, doesn’t have a standardized one for alt tab. That’s not because of a cabal of stereotypes rubbing their hands together and laughing over a meeting table shaped like the Mercator projection, but because the wayland devs abdicated responsibility by not making a reference implementation and that left space open for anyone who wanted to to stake their claim.

Now rather than looking at the design and deciding that we need 12 foot posts to support the back side of the building as the land slopes off we are at the mercy of whatever the supplier brings to the site today.

Why would I volunteer my time to that? Why would anyone?

It’s preconfigured arch that’s ai-forward.

At a time when a massive fraction of the open source world is thrashing around trying to figure out how to align themselves to ai that stands out.

E: people on lemmy hate it because the creator has incoherent European migration politics that come to the opposite conclusion of their own incoherent European migration politics.

Why don’t you “check out” some code that involves the ops issue and try to solve it instead of trolling people.

I have installed Linux on many things. Post the output of your “lspci” and the output of your “ip address”

The design of it is not compatible with the old paradigm of graphical interfaces which were the ones created by teams of researchers trying to figure out how to most effectively open a dialogue between computer and user. There is no reference implementation. It’s broken in a million little ways. No xscreensaver.

But if I had to name just one main thing: the whole point of wayland is to make it easier for the programmers of x to handle a large complex codebase, which they accomplished by throwing everything out and starting over from scratch instead of migrating to tools, process and even languages that make that precise problem easier to manage and at the time of waylands conception we had forty fucking years of history showing vast improvement in the tools, processes and languages aimed at big complex shit.

The fact that anyone will defend the decision to abandon x for the absolute slop delivery tube that wayland became in an age where we have access to, like it or not, the ultimate programming tool in the form of cheap and fast large language models is insane.

All time L.

Feed five bucks into deepseek and have it spit out functional dotfiles for branding where you want it.

Because Wayland sucks. It was designed to suck.

E: Lol at the 1:1 ratio atm.

Taskbar on the left edge of the screen

E: also trackball instead of mouse.

What all 32 bit stuff do you need to replace?

No. You can’t. Have backups and get comfortable with your distributions bootloader reinstallation process.