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I want my network transparent apps back, and WITHOUT A GPU, wayland ! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/wayland@lemmy.ml

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I have heard the dismissal, I have been told I don't matter, I have been told I'm a edge case.

But I'm telling you wayland, I chafe at you taking away my optionality.

Sometimes I ~need~ that feature, and when I need it, I need it bad !

I understand that the IBM money pouring into wayland is super happy about the linux world losing network transparency for apps, stripping power users of their inconvenient toys.

But I'm telling you, I need it.

No, waypipe isn't it.

~~Also, no longer having distinct window managers from the compositor give me serious bad vibes but this isn't what this is about~~

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, I can have a full screen browser window over the network with X11 sipping kilobits of bandwidth while being designed to run on a 80486. Text and white squares that don't move, don't need hpixelvpixelbitdepth*framerate of bandwidth

on my monitor, this is 3'732'480'000 bytes per second, not viable to send more than 3 such windows over a 10GBe network.

If business interests sell per application portability across the network without using 1 GPU for each 3 instances, or saturating 10GBe links or whole processors just handling the raw video data.

I can see why they would be very excited about the demise of network transparency along with the death of X11.