> Analogies are false understandings. They confuse patterns for truth, but the evidence for these patterns are often based on further analogies or tenuous connections. The human mind looks for patterns, and isn’t above creating the patterns that it wants to see.
Its most often true that what is different between the analogy and the real is more important than what is the same and that deconstructing the simulacrum and the thing is more complicated and convoluted than simply speaking plain words about boring facts.
For example the global warming debate at it's simplest is two groups arguing for binary and mutually exclusive choices. Either the earth is getting warmer or it's not. Either its caused by our actions or its not and we all live in the same environment so if I'm wrong you are right or vice versa.
Meanwhile Wayland and X are only mutually exclusive in the same session you can in fact log out of one and into the other between one comment and the other if you please. Or you can use Wayland and I can use X to have this very conservation which is in fact very likely what is happening right now. The same way I can use Firefox and you can use Chromium if you prefer.
Both Wayland and X offer an abstraction on how the graphics stack actually works. An abstraction no users should give two shits about because nobody on earth cares about plumbing until the water doesn't come out when you turn the knob. A user cares about the system as a level of abstraction where they click a button and a window appears. What they don't want to do is change a damn thing about how they use their computer or accept even the slightest decrease in functionality in order to personally accommodate a difference in plumbing while opting out is entirely trivial.
To ignore "advances" in plumbing that don't yield advances in practice doesn't make one a reactionary or a grognard it simple pragmatism. When was the last time you saw someone say
"Let me buy this ugly car that doesn't turn so well because the way the engine is laid out really sparks joy!"
It is the conceit of someone who really does care about how the engine is laid out to suppose that people ought to care about that rather than how it is actually experienced by the user.
For example Ubuntu didn't get a version that could actually accelerate xwayland windows under Nvidia until last month and it still suffers from bugs not apparent under X. Furthermore any setup that requires fractional scaling or mixed DPI will result in a xwayland apps looking like a blurry mess so you either need to stay away from such configurations that work entirely fine under X or exclude any apps that aren't wayland native from your computer.
Some of us would prefer to simply using our computers instead of beta testing the future and putting up with limitations for someone else's sense of aesthetics.
Posted from Firefox running on X11 with 3 monitors with 3 different DPIs attached to an Nvidia GPU wherein all outputs are perfectly scaled to be identical and everything is crisp and clear.
> Analogies are false understandings. They confuse patterns for truth, but the evidence for these patterns are often based on further analogies or tenuous connections. The human mind looks for patterns, and isn’t above creating the patterns that it wants to see.
https://mattwriteswords.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/why-analogi...
Its most often true that what is different between the analogy and the real is more important than what is the same and that deconstructing the simulacrum and the thing is more complicated and convoluted than simply speaking plain words about boring facts.
For example the global warming debate at it's simplest is two groups arguing for binary and mutually exclusive choices. Either the earth is getting warmer or it's not. Either its caused by our actions or its not and we all live in the same environment so if I'm wrong you are right or vice versa.
Meanwhile Wayland and X are only mutually exclusive in the same session you can in fact log out of one and into the other between one comment and the other if you please. Or you can use Wayland and I can use X to have this very conservation which is in fact very likely what is happening right now. The same way I can use Firefox and you can use Chromium if you prefer.
Both Wayland and X offer an abstraction on how the graphics stack actually works. An abstraction no users should give two shits about because nobody on earth cares about plumbing until the water doesn't come out when you turn the knob. A user cares about the system as a level of abstraction where they click a button and a window appears. What they don't want to do is change a damn thing about how they use their computer or accept even the slightest decrease in functionality in order to personally accommodate a difference in plumbing while opting out is entirely trivial.
To ignore "advances" in plumbing that don't yield advances in practice doesn't make one a reactionary or a grognard it simple pragmatism. When was the last time you saw someone say
"Let me buy this ugly car that doesn't turn so well because the way the engine is laid out really sparks joy!"
It is the conceit of someone who really does care about how the engine is laid out to suppose that people ought to care about that rather than how it is actually experienced by the user.
For example Ubuntu didn't get a version that could actually accelerate xwayland windows under Nvidia until last month and it still suffers from bugs not apparent under X. Furthermore any setup that requires fractional scaling or mixed DPI will result in a xwayland apps looking like a blurry mess so you either need to stay away from such configurations that work entirely fine under X or exclude any apps that aren't wayland native from your computer.
Some of us would prefer to simply using our computers instead of beta testing the future and putting up with limitations for someone else's sense of aesthetics.
Posted from Firefox running on X11 with 3 monitors with 3 different DPIs attached to an Nvidia GPU wherein all outputs are perfectly scaled to be identical and everything is crisp and clear.