Wayland needs a secure and backward compatible (which, unfortunately, rules out secure) way to manage global shortcuts and keypresses and viewport/video memory sharing.

These are two sore points of still incomplete feature parity with X11.

Yes, there are workarounds. Yes, the old ways were insecure by design. Yes, it's damn hard to provide these features to unmaintained software that expects stuff to work in a certain way.

But removing used/useful features is not exactly progress, no matter in name of what is being done.

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The half-full-glass kid in me wants to think it's good that at least this will increase accountability for contributors.

No point in downright outlawing this slop; but at least, at very least, it can be made (more) transparent.

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Heck, Steam is providing devs with free publicity and notifying them too!

After W10 expiration, this is a very smart move on behalf of our Lord and Savior Gaben.

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I still think the "48 years ago" last modified column in GitHub is worth a smile.

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Offloading individual responsibility on the society/government.

The lazy way to solve one problem and create one hundred.

Well done! You'll find me and my popcorn bag waiting for your tears when you'll realize what was the hidden cost of outsourcing your critical thinking to others.

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Maybe it's just PR speak, but they seem genuinely happy to support Deck.

Which is incredibly refreshing, for such a mainstream franchise.

A pretty good change from the typical "oh, it works also on that thing?" approach most other developers have. I encourage everyone to thumb up the announcement, as token of appreciation. Even if, like me, don't have nor plan to buy the game.

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Gotta be honest here.

Proton devs (both inhouse and upstream from WINE) are doing an insane job, both as amount of things fixed, and speed at which fixes go out.

Not to mention they have to deal mostly with closed-source games they cannot tweak, and they "fix" by changing their side of the equation.

Do anyone knows how many people Valve has on payroll whose job is to patch Proton to work with as many games as possible?

I'm frankly impressed.

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It's already tough as nails to keep a (relatively straightforward) piece of software like a driver safe and secure.

I can't imagine how complicated would be to add a part that must be 110% secure for everyone *BUT* for the self-appointed good guys.

I'm glad the largest company in the world takes this stand against abusive governments.

And if you think UK is bad on this, do you want a rant about US? No, you don't.

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The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. (1977)

They.
Never.
Learn.

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The sound of inevitability, Mr. Anderson.

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