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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It happens all the time in the magical world of closed source, too.

Ever heard about the iOS vs Android fights? How people shame Android users for being green bubbles?

It's just the extension of the my camp vs theirs applied to the tech field, nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I laughed off reports about this kind of thing, thinking "omg who could possibly give a shit about what color their text bubble is in a group chat?" Later my gen Z office mate told me about how he uses an iPhone and cited this exact reason unironically. I was stunned into silence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there's a decent amount of research into the psychology behind it and how reading white text on the light green is more difficult than on the blue bubble. it's rather interesting.

edit: although I would think dark mode should change that effect a little bit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've noticed it more and more over the years how people will fight tooth and nail to defend a product for no other reason than self validation.

I've even had one person try to sell me on OperaGX as if they were reading off an AD, When I asked them technical questions about it they just pulled the conversation back to selling up the gimmicks. I finally straight asked them why they were advertising something for a company they don't work for and they just got offended. Was kinda a surreal experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh absolutely, I am sadly all far too well aware of those cases (especially the "green bubbles" thing, I've never rolled my eyes harder at a silly situation).

It's not even strictly a tech thing either, its a long standing thing in human history no matter where you look, and unfortunately I don't see it going away any time soon.