I think the problem with btrfs is that it entered the spotlight way to early. With Wayland there was time to work on a lot of the kinks before everyone started seriously switching.

On btrfs a bunch of people switched blindly and then lost data. This caused many to have a bad impression of btrfs. These days it is significantly better but because there was so much fear there is less attention paid to it and it is less widely used.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      It is a protocol not a display manager. The desktop runs everything and the apps connect to it.

      Network was never part of the design and never will be

      • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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        9 hours ago

        @possiblylinux127 Yes idiots keep touting it as a replacement for Xorg which IS a networking display and that is a feature I need, and I suspect if more people knew how to use it they’d also need it.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          I think most people aren’t living in the past. What is your use case exactly? What do you need a remote GUI for? RDP and other protocols exist and are much better especially in terms of performance.

          • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
            2·
            7 hours ago

            @possiblylinux127 Again rdp, vnc, x2go, ONLY work for full desktops, they do not work for individual applications. If I’ve got a terminal session into a server and decide I want to fire up synaptic, X does that for me, Wayland doesn’t and the overhead of starting an entire desktop to run a single app for a few minutes does not make sense.

            • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
              21·
              7 hours ago

              And there is were the community has kind diverged. Now days it is either headless servers or desktops.

              Running individual apps is interesting but I am afraid that it is not super practical in 2024. However, there is this: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

              Xorg is no longer being maintained for the most part and because the code base is so large there isn’t anyone who understands the codebase. I still use it for my semi virtual PC as Xorg allows for a lot more flexibility than Wayland plus Xfce4 isn’t completely ported yet. There will be a day when I move completely though. Probably when Xfce4 is Wayland native.