A virtual machine is a much better security boundry than a container. Will that often matter… maybe not. I’m sure other tools wrap docker.

and this was something everyone was parroting years ago, then we moved forward with docker saying it is capable of isolating deps without the overhead of a VM so why are we moving backwards now?

“Wayland” cannot crash, its a protocol. Your complaints are to your compositor.

Wayland is a display system design, and is responsible for problems arising from the system design.

Does it really have to be said that a PR is built upon previous work. It was not a 400 line delta for the whole feature.

podman-compose works fine. It’s a very simple format.

The rate of change is equal for all groups. The gaming market can be the most conservative since it’s just luxury.

Based on my experience it doesn’t solve novel problems. It’s good at generating common solutions.

This goes back to how we define "novel problems." Is a dev building a typical CRUD webapp for some bespoke business purpose a "novel problem" or not? Reimplementing a well-known standard in a different language and infrastructure environment (e.g. https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/)?

I'm probably just rephrasing what you mean, but LLMs are very good at applying standard techniques ("common solutions"?) to new use-cases. My take is, in many cases, these new use-cases are unique enough to be a "novel problem."

Otherwise, this pushes the definition of "novel problems" to something requiring entirely new techniques altogether. If so, I doubt if LLMs can solve these, but I am also pretty sure that 99.99999% of engineers cannot either.

> Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads

I honestly don’t think so for any consumer focused ones.

Including it with bespoke hardware kinda works but is so expensive to actually do.

Someone should work on Linux to make something better than gnome or kde and charge for it. I would pay.

Why not donate to gnome or kde to improve those directly?

I don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base.

Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience.

KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica.

A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.

Yes it should be doable manually, not like this is a complex feature.

Yes, WebKit 1 is extremely dead, many web features don’t function in it.

It’s very much a hack, but it’s largely functional.