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I was wrong about everything in 2022, plus many Hot Takes - Patroncast S02E48

Hey everyone!


I hope you're all doing well as the end of the year draws near! Here is episode 48 of your weekly patroncast :)


In this one, I talk about:

- 00:52 The predictions I made about Linux in 2022, and how they were mostly wrong

- 14:30 Hot takes! About Linux, Tech, Gaming, everything! These will probably be annoying to a lot of you, so, well, feel free to tell me I'm an idiot in the comments, or disagree politely, however you want to handle that!

I hope you enjoy the podcast,

Nick

Comments

I never used it, AFAIK, it only works on Google Pixels, and I don't own one of these!

The Linux Experiment

Yeah, it's going to be for "more popular" distros, and Mint will be the main holdout, as far as I know, they haven't started working on wayland support at all.

The Linux Experiment

Hey! what do you think about GrapheneOS and how does it compares with /e/OS ?

Nicolas Alibert

Interesting reflection and predictions. We’ll see in another year :D. I do think you’re a bit too optimistic about Wayland being related to repository in 2023. Wayland on Gnome is pretty much done and works really well, but KDE Plasma is not quite there yet and they’re also working on shifting to QT6 at the same time next year. Then there are all the other DE’s that probably still nee years of development. XFCE for example is also very popular and far from Wayland ready. Then there is Mint which also has quite a following, but of all the DE’s it offers, only Mate might get close to working on Wayland in 2023. I’m not sure if work even started on cinnamon moving away from xorg. Perhaps Xorg will disappear from a default install on something like Fedora Gnome and other progressive distros, but everywhere else I think it will stay for a while longer. For something like Mint, the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based version may be the first in which will see cinnamon on Wayland. I can’t even guess for XFCE. They’re working on it, but their current roadmap indicates a full transition may never happen at all. So then I guess the question becomes: will the other DE is be dropped just to be able to drop Xorg or not? Seems unlikely, but who knows.


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