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@probonopd
probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active December 7, 2025 22:14
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

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@CTimmerman
CTimmerman / Tech prefs.md
Last active December 7, 2025 00:40
Technology preferences / tech prefs.

My Technology Preferences

For those who don't bother to remember.

Hardware

In recent years, it takes about 10 years to apply a discovery in a new field (e.g. "laptop batteries" in electric cars, down from 105 in case of radio's 1885 patent vs 1780 discovery, but it should be noted that electric cars like the 1914 Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham worked just fine for city trips), 10 years to get it ready for mass production (e.g. Tesla), and 10 years to make it affordable to normal people (again Tesla).

Personal Computer

@rminderhoud
rminderhoud / django_error_test_database_1005.md
Created August 2, 2015 01:13
Fix mysql error 1005 when running django tests

#Django Test Database Error 1005 8/1/2015

Environment

  • Django 1.8.3
  • MySQL 5.5

When running python manage.py test I was receiving the following error