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by arghwhat 2790 days ago
NVIDIA being assholes is nothing new. Wayland is just their newest way to try to screw open source development in order to stay as proprietary as possible.

> Excuse me while I seat myself into a corner with my trusty X window based software that at least does what I need it to do half the time.

Enjoy your root escalation exploits and complete lack of any usable security model, then. Oh, and soon, complete obsolescence. I'll enjoy my out-of-the box wayland setup.

Oh, and yes, X forwarding is total utter crap. Wayland will have remote capabilities, but X forwarding was never a good idea. It was okay 20 years ago, but it doesn't make sense at any level today.