Video decoding/encoding should work fine, better than Nvidia as fewer things support nvdec (the vaapi wrapper is enough though).

I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.

Thats not relevant because Cosmic isn’t either.

My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.

If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.

If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)

They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.

The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.

Fedora does not because they can’t support it. If a bug is found all they can do is shrug and point you at Nvidia. If they want to add a feature that breaks they would be stuck and have to hold back other drivers.

The kernel drivers were never an issue, but userspace drivers fixed this many years ago with glvnd.

It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.

Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

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My only concern would be the systems that my code runs on top of won’t be willing to share. It is one thing to demand it from me, another to demand it from Siemens. Then you add in very low level code for individual devices such as VFDs

It is about code they pay to create…

You are absolutely correct. This can help in a world where every app is well sandboxed (thus can be reliably identified and isolated).

Also very unrelated, that’s about graphics apis like opengl.

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Synchronization

Bit old, but I used a Windows Media Center remote, still see new ones for cheap. Then use lirc with an IR receiver.

That’s a totally unrelated part of the stack. These days you just have a compositor that combines the output of applications.

The model of out of process rendering in Xorg was done pre-2000s but GPUs became the norm and don’t work well this way.

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Just by chance because Pandora is very conservative about API changes and it happens to use Android APIs still supported.

Realistically the threat we care about is others leak your password. So it doesn’t matter.

If you have a setup where your password vault is at risk then yes it’s a bad idea.

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Neither Chromium nor Gecko have a stable public API. Companies are just willing to spend money rebasing every Chromium update.