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Welcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com.

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(if anyone representing the Wayland project or freedesktop.org wants this instance, hit up @osslate)

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@compositor this is gonna spark whole new flamewars in the window compositor debatespace
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@compositor
So if I access this instance using a computer with an Nvidia GPU, am I going to have a buggy experience?
(Octothorp-WakaWakaWaka) đŸ€Ș

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@kerneltux So long as your NVIDIA driver supports GBM (Going Beyond Musk), you should have an acceptable experience.

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@compositor (can someone please explain the joke? I don't get?)

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@bookstardust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) is called the successor of the X11 display server on Linux machines, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_server_communications_protocols. They are referenced to as "Wayland" and "X" respective. So yes, this is a kind of "Linux joke".

And in case of wayland.social vs. x.com a real good one đŸ€Ł

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@bookstardust @compositor Elon Musk announced that he is renaming Twitter to X. In the Linux world, X (or X11) and Wayland are two windowing systems (X is mostly old and quite outdated).

This joke just had to be made 😆

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@bookstardust @compositor I suppose it is a pun on Musk rebranding Twitter. Wayland is a display protocol intended to replace the X display server on Linux systems.

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@IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust That's too deep for me. My first thought was: "Weyland Yutani, but with wrong spelling."

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Asahi Lina (朝旄ăƒȘナ) // nullptr::live

@NTICompass @IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust And the logos are very similar ^^

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@janhelms different worlds: that one doesn't ring a bell with me 🙈 @bookstardust

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@IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust I have linux mint on my laptop, but basically I'm a N00b... :-) Mr Weyland of Weyland Yutani is the self-made billionaire with too much hubris that wants to live forever and to converse with aliens on eye level in "Alien Prometheus". Not a great movie, but Weyland resembles Elmo Murks to a certain degree.

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@janhelms
Didn't ring a bell to me too first, but now I don't understand how could I forget about it, Weyland Corporation from the Alien franchise!
I've even made a joke once by drawing a parallel between the two — the compositor and the fictional corporation 😂
@IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust

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