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by kristjansson·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Wayland folks generally, and ddevault in particular, have built the software they wanted to build, with the tradeoffs they wanted to make. That's good! Users don't have a right to demand they make different software, with different tradeoffs, that they didn't want to make, and definitely don't have the right to invective when they don't get their way.

However, proponents probably also shouldn't push 'no yes it does work for you' replies though, particularly on the Nvidia thing, since that statement has to be followed by 'if you make serious performance and capability tradeoffs that you may not want to make.'

This software disclaims support for this and that thing [1] - that's fine, just add those to your constraint set and see if you still want to use that software at the end of the day. If you don't, that's fine, either write some code to lift your constraints or move on, but don't be a dick about it.

[1]: maybe because the guys that build that thing are jerks, and aren't being good citizens. Which, sure, fine, but from a user perspective, this peg doesn't go in that hole.