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    • X11 is the displayer server, a real process running on your computer.
    • X11 window managers are clients to that server. It communicates with the server and tells it where to draw the windows.
    • A desktop environment is a window manager plus a whole suite of other applications and processes that a common computer user would expect.

    A window manager and display server are the bare minimum of the x11 graphical environment. Desktop environment is draw the rest of the owl.

    Wayland is is a completely different beast than x11. There is no Wayland program, just a wide set of protocols. There are no Wayland window managers, just “compositors”. Compositors are responsible for everything both the display server and window manager would do in x11. Everything is up to the compositor to implement. It just has to follow the Wayland protocols.

    This can make migrating to Wayland a bit tricky. If a program worked in one x11 window manager, it was basically guaranteed to work in all window managers becuase it was always communicating to the same X server directly. In Wayland that’s not guaranteed. If a compositor didn’t (or didn’t correctly) implement a certain subset of protocols then the utility wouldn’t work correctly.

    IE take xrandr and wlr-randr. They both are a , “display settings” CLI utility. xrandr works on any x11 environment because it always communicates with x11. wlr-randr only works if the compositor implements the wlr_output_management_unstable_v1 protocol. See the protocol deifnition here










  • The main alternatives to Kodi are Jellyfin and Plex but I suspect those will have the same problem if your library isn’t organized. How well are NOVA and Infuse handling your library? Like are they able to tell queue up the next episode of a TV show? Because Kodi is basically trying to be more like a local Netflix than “just a video player”.

    Jellyfin and Plex are web-based so you’ll get a a far more consistent experience across devices than Kodi. But they’ll generally expect Movies to be in one folder, TV shows in another, and will have some expectations of the file name. They won’t open the file to figure out what movie it is.




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    5 months ago

    If this was really the case then the onus would be leftists to articulate in simpler language. You can’t mobilize the common folk if you can speak the common language.

    But most of the time its either the liberals lack the prerequisite historical knowledge or they just have antiegalitarian values.


  • If python is too big for you and you’re dealing with heterogeneous systems then you’re probably stuck with sh as the lowest common denominator between those systems. I’m not aware of any scripting languages that are so portable you can simply install them with one file over scp.

    Alternate route is to abandon a scripting interpreter completely and compile a static binary in something like Go and deploy the binary.

    There was also some “compile to bash” programming languages that I’ve sneered at because I couldn’t think of a use case but this might be one.