Xlibre: A Modern Xorg Fork Challenges Wayland's Dominance

2025-06-17

Wayland, touted as a modern replacement for Xorg, faces criticism for its incomplete functionality and forceful adoption. It struggles in crucial areas like remote desktop, custom keyboard bindings, and legacy software support. This raises concerns within the open-source community as Wayland's shortcomings impact user experience, especially for those with disabilities. In response, Xlibre, a fork of Xorg, aims to modernize Xorg and provide a complete and stable alternative. Xlibre offers a glimmer of hope for the Linux desktop, but its success in challenging Wayland remains to be seen.

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Windows 11: Still a Waste of Time?

2025-02-04

A tech writer revisited Windows 11 and found it still lacking. File Explorer remains slow, Settings are inferior to Control Panel, and hardware requirements are unnecessarily stringent. The author criticizes Microsoft's insistence on TPM 2.0, arguing it's irrelevant for home users and contradicts Microsoft's own security narrative. While recent updates were relatively smooth, Explorer's sluggishness, poor UI design, and the ability for apps to override privacy settings persist. The conclusion? Windows 11 remains largely useless, its market share shrinking in favor of Windows 10.

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