Couldn't help myself! Apologies to mr van Gogh and Creative Labs (it's their ad [External Link]! )

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X11 was of course in contrast to Wayland loved by all and never faced any criticism.

If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.

This is what happens when software with good intentions goes bad. It victimizes innocent users by distorting their perception of what is and what is not good software. This malignant window system must be destroyed.

Oh, wait, maybe not. [External Link]

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Quoting: neolithWell... apparently I am not going to do that - I cannot get the darn thing to run at all.
Just using Wine I am getting to the main menu, music is playing and I am getting what I have to assume is a missing texture replacement. When using any version of Proton the game won't even start.

Has anyone tried and had any more success of running Crimson Skies?

I'm getting the same behavior (intros play, music, but a white screen) using standard Wine 8.20.

I can get it to run using Proton 7 but I run Proton outside Steam without any containers so it uses my system libraries., otherwise I think it might choke on the intro videos and fail to launch? I'm not sure how non-Steam games work with the video conversion stuff.

The blank screen in the menu might be a Wine regression. I'll see if I can figure it out.

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Quoting: NezchanSeems like the creator of Xscreensaver is rather upset about this development, given Wayland has no way to implement screen savers at all.

Another win for Wayland?

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Quoting: CyrilYeah I know, sorry maybe I wasn't clear at all (I use XFCE on Manjaro), I meant: for the whole Wayland thing, XFCE seems to be the black sheep here.

Keep in mind that of all the desktop environments in Linux, only GNOME and KDE Plasma have full Wayland support, and KDE only started recommending Wayland over Xorg a couple of weeks ago.

As I understand it MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie and LXQt only have experimental or no support for Wayland. I'm guessing Xorg will be around for quite a while in most distributions, and there will be time for Wayland ports.

For RHEL Red Hat supports a release for 10 years, so planning ahead for 2035 (RHEL 10 releases in 2025) and dropping a previously deprecated system seems quite understandable in their situation.

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Quoting: CyrilWhat about people who likes XFCE (like me)? :unsure::happy:
Is there anyone else in the same case?

Unless you use XFCE on RHEL why worry?

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Quoting: EhvisEspecially the graphics/animation industry that heavily relies on nvidia may just choose to stick with RHEL9 for a much longer time than RH wants.

Not sure who their customers are, but they are apparently in need of things like HDR.

Red Hat recently redirected a lot of their developers to work on Wayland [External Link]. Specifically to "focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users".

Quite a controversial move as they stopped said developers from maintaing a lot of packages and projects. (On company time at least.)

Seems to be a real "all hands on deck" situation with Wayland.

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What have you been playing recently? Give your latest recommendations in the comments!

An Arcade Full of Cats [External Link] - free of charge (as spotted by an eagle eyed arachnid ), Linux native, Playable rating for the Deck.

I already found all the kittehs so now I'm waiting for the free DLC!

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Quoting: ShmerlDid anyone actually manage to test the new Wayland driver for anything simple?

I tried it, but it's not working:

debug=true DISPLAY='' WAYLAND_DISPLAY='wayland-0' wine regedit
...
009c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
009c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."
009c:err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window
002c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
002c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly."

Seems to still be missing the bits I mentioned here. I guess it won't be hooked up properly until everything has been merged.

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I've been pretty promiscuous when it comes to audio subsystems. Over the years I've used OSS, ALSA, Jack, ESD, PulseAudio.

Maybe it's about time I got my tubes tied - my pipes wired?

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