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by R0b0t1 1522 days ago
Have to agree with you. You can find some good posts (blog posts? I forget) where an MS engineer explains why the desktop on Windows is as messy as it is. The gist of it was, they did actually try basically everything else and had various types of security, but anything but having the desktop as a single security boundary (at least as far as interaction was concerned) made everything too complicated and brittle.

For this reason I highly doubt wayland will really work as intended. We're going to end up with a middle shim layer that basically acts as X11 but doesn't look like it.

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