Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 2026-07-27 03:08, c186282 wrote:
> On 7/26/26 16:00, John McCue wrote:
>> c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

...

>> See rant above :)  But I think it is many more corporations
>> then just M/S, it is just Microsoft is the most visible.
>> Just look at who is pushing Wayland instead of enhancing
>> X11.  If end users were in control like we were in the
>> 90s, X11 would have improved a lot over the last 15 years
>> instead of people working on Wayland.
> 
>    Everybody wants to make a buck - and at this point
>    anything 'net' is a political football too. Predictable,
>    pain in the ass, but predictable. We will just have to
>    devise ways to work AROUND most of the bullshit.
> 
>    I'd REALLY like to see a good clean revision of X11
>    than anything Wayland. X11, at this point, "just
>    works" and there are many utilities and docs. As
>    I don't do video games the Wayland claim to "speed"
>    doesn't impress me much.
> 
>    Heh, I do remember early X11 ... took me two days
>    to tweak obscure poorly-documented config files
>    before it'd even find my mouse and monitor, much
>    less operate them reliably. I was a lot younger
>    then - today, dunno if I'd put in that much effort.

Took me months. Tring to find documentation, reading it, then doing this 
or this other small change. My hardware was not completely standard.

There was a GUI in SuSE to config X. Not YaST, something else I can't 
remember.

I asked ChatGPT: "Yes. It was called SaX, short for SuSE Advanced X 
Configuration Tool."


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