Comment by kelnos

> I am not complaining about what people do in their spare time.

Re-read your original post. You are absolutely complaining about what we do in our spare time.

> If the blog post said "someone does this because he likes to spend his own time on it", I would not complain.

I mean, that's part of it. I wouldn't do it if I wasn't interested in doing it. I have my own long list of Wayland criticisms, but I think it's interesting.

> I also do not agree with the Wayland is inevitable sentiment.

I think that's where we'll be at an impasse.

There are non-systemd distros because there are viable alternatives. Xorg (the server implementation, I mean, not X11 the protocol/system) is dead. I don't like saying that. I've invested a lot of time into X11 and understanding how it works, and how Xorg works. But no one wants to maintain it. There is the XLibre fork, and I wish them well, and do want them to succeed, but sustaining a fork is hard, and only time will tell if that works out.

But I don't think X11 has a future, unfortunately. And that really does make me sad. You're free to disagree with that, but... well, so what.

> The Linux desktop was essentially fine already two decades ago and instead of the needed refinements

That's a view through rose-tinted glasses if I ever saw one.

> we get random changes in technology after the other

Jamie Zawinski called this the "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers", and he's right. I do think some of these changes are an earnest and honest attempt to make things better, but yes, people just want to work on what interests them, and what makes them feel good and accomplished.

When we work for a corporation we don't really get to do that, but when it's unpaid, spare-time volunteer work, we have the freedom to do whatever makes us happy, even if it makes other people mad or disappointed or annoyed, or isn't the most "productive" use of our time (whatever that means).

::shrug::