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I mean, yeah, Nvidia being fundamentally incompatible with open source ecosystems, not having drivers, and having stuff broken sucks and while I think it's pretty pathetic and low-life to not care and not think about that in any way at all, I get that folks are going to stay on X because Nvidia refuses to work with open source.

That said, I do think the parent post is probably experiencing a very very rare issue. There are plenty of people using Nvidia ⨯ Sway now quite successfully.



> I think it's pretty pathetic and low-life to not care and not think about that in any way at all,

Was this part really necessary? The people who care more about working software are pathetic and lowlife? Really?

> I get that folks are going to stay on X because Nvidia refuses to work with open source.

I dunno if you've noticed, but there are one or two other dealbreakers that keep people off of Wayland.


Open source grants folks the right to use however they want at whatever level they want, but yeah, I think it's riding dirty to take take take & not give a lick of thought to the ecosystem or concern for it's overall well-being.

When you said:

> I don't care about the details of why it won't work, I'll just keep using the product that does work.

I see active dis-interest like that as damaging to open source as a whole. It's a mercenary in-it-for-me view, one that's not investing any caring.


> I see active dis-interest like that as damaging to open source as a whole. It's a mercenary in-it-for-me view, one that's not investing any caring.

But that's not active disinterest.

I mean, what do you want people to do? Use the product that doesn't work for them?

Do you routinely go out of your way to switch to products that cannot (and will never) do what you need it to do?

Which products are these, that you use even though they can not do what you need?




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