throwaway1194
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't care, you are here throwing tantrums and name-calling like a 5 year old while my comments are being downvoted at the same time. I told you what my views about SerenityOS, Ladybird and Andreas are and you insist I'm wrong and ignorant while I never called anyone any names here.
You also say that I'm entitled, ok let's see who's the one crying on X about the Linux Foundation funding other projects than his own:
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1877438066190622874#m
Look, it's fine if you like him and his projects, I don't because I know it's all about the money, he should have stayed working at Apple.
And again: I'm not going to spend my time nor resources to support someone who already displayed signs of betrayal to his community.
The SerenityOS community was fractured, all because of his selfish ambitions.
Comment · 1 year ago
The only ones who wasted time are the SerenityOS contributors themselves with the bait-and-switch, I'm really not interested to hear about his sob story about why he started it when he has shown that he doesn't care about anyone else but himself, takes everyone for granted and replaces the project unilaterally while killing the OS essentially.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Andreas did not change his mind about SerenityOS
He did, how much do you want to bet that if he were to do it all over again he would go straight to the browser work and skip the OS project?
That's why he doesn't even talk about it anymore, he even removed it as a target in Ladybird.
It's clear that he got burned by his own decisions.
I don't care what you think about me or not, I don't hate SerenityOS and I wish that project well, but I think they should reconsider their stance on third party libraries.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, sway is not a desktop environment...
Comment · 1 year ago
You are the one assuming things wrongly about me, you know absolutely nothing about what I know and don't.
Am I not allowed to say anything anymore? I know what SerenityOS is and what it's trying to do, I just think it's unreasonable and a waste of effort.
Andreas himself changed his mind about reusing third party libraries in Ladybird, SerenityOS should do the same.
Comment · 1 year ago
> SerenityOS has no business running on Linux, but a fork could be pretty neat for 90s GUI lovers.
Take a look at labwc, the look and feel is similar to Openbox and can be made to look retro-like.
Xfce will also come with Wayland support in the next version or so I hear.
I don't get the Sway comment about being barebones, it's a tiling compositor, it does what it should do.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I'm glad that you weren't there as the self-proclaimed arbiter of real impact™ when I started writing it. :)
So? I achieved things of my own as well, some of which I'm very proud of, but I don't go online belittling others acting as "holier than thou" to bring my point across, which you apparently do, I doubt you are as important as you claim to be.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Then it would be just another Linux distro of which there are 100s already.
No, it would be a Wayland compositor, which could be made to run on Linux or the BSDs.
> This is a great environment to rapidly prototype new UI features, like it was the first time I saw an OS able to open UI folders and Applications from `ls` output in a terminal.
There's nothing special about this, Enlightenment did it on Linux many years before Serenity even existed.
https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md
> but it's only targeted for the hobbyist developers building the OS to use and has no plans on becoming an OS for mainstream adoption.
It's such a shame because it could be a great Wayland compositor, and the features you mention could be made to work as a desktop environment.
Why spend years reinventing the wheel when others already did the hard work that they won't be able to replicate in the first place?
It's their time, sure. And they can do wherever they want but it's still wasted effort, whether people admit it or not.
Not even the BSDs are able to compete with Linux on driver's support, what makes people think SerenityOS could?
I also hardly doubt the SerenityOS people don't have any expectations to get at least some adoption, they're wasting their time with their current strategy.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Serenity's existence is purely for pleasure purposes
These projects misdirect talented individuals from impactful work.
What's the point, if they ultimately collapse due to the unsustainable nature of solely pleasure-driven endeavors?
This wasted effort is particularly frustrating considering that vital open-source projects, crucial for real-world applications, are struggling to survive due to critical lack of contributors.
It's infuriating to witness this neglect.
Comment · 1 year ago
> not everything is about practicality
I hate to say it but if they're not thinking in practical terms, they're dead in the long run.
Comment · 1 year ago
> SerenityOS's WindowServer is actually more usable than Wayland
I find that very difficult to believe, how exactly is it more usable? Serenity would benefit a lot sitting on top of a Linux kernel in my opinion.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just refactor SerenityOS, take its DE and make it a Wayland compositor, stop reinventing the wheel. Ladybird realized this, why can't SerenityOS do the same?
Comment · 2 years ago
> Use whitespace more. In both directions.
What does that mean?
Exactly, that's why I support Free Software, not "Open Source".
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en....
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....