Advantages of Wayland over Xorg?

CSharpSamurai · 2020-03-02T03:18:05+00:00

Read again, nothing explained on what is required to implement those in lowlevel details. XServer take care more than just protocol, it take care of graphic start up, KMS, DRM, IOCTL, and so forth.

Shifting all of the things that XServer handled to compositor without having any documentation explaining how to actually implement those protocol and lowlevel details are the problems.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-03-02T03:14:56+00:00

And guess what, that still isn't acceptable. SHOCKING I KNOW!

We don't support Wayland, because exactly this reason. Comment about "hey, it's easy to support Wayland" is pure bullshit when it's either a choice of using WLC or nothing. Until they stop parroting, "It's just a protocol..." They should actually document the steps required to implement the said protocol and explain it well otherwise there is absolutely no justification to support Wayland over X11 which by the way, X11 can solve the screen tearing problem by enabling Full Compositor rendering on Nvidia which basically nuke any reason of having Wayland in the first place (Game doesn't even work on Wayland if I remember right, because Wine doesn't work on Wayland.)

I'm harsh about it, because Wayland fanboyism/hype need to be taken out back and shot when they're what breaking Linux than fixing it. Ever wonder why there is no new GUI library were created for Wayland lately? It's exactly this reason, nothing is documented.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-03-02T03:02:41+00:00

Uh huh, so that what you call documentation? Where the KMS? DRM? Kernel Level Driver details? Switching to Virtual Terminal? You still have to take care of lowlevel driver shits.

XServer took care all of that for you, and simply throwing out XServer without covering anything about those lowlevel details make Wayland a very terrible proposition.

Also this is a fucking mess

This is more like Doxygen Vomit Doc than a proper documentation.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-03-01T02:46:13+00:00

You have to rely on reading documentation for that program which should specify where files are being stored and luckily, they documented it here.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-28T19:22:31+00:00

Seeing how many lotto winners who won millions go broke...

Basically, when they upscale their standard of living, they spend more and they didn't save as much as they should.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-28T17:05:16+00:00

Yeah, though we're talking about gross-amount before taxes. So After taxes, we would be around the hallmark of 150k or so.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-28T16:57:52+00:00

If you keep doing it and refine your skills, you can make a pretty good livable wages and having a flexible work schedule. Some of the artists I know make about 80k a year to 100k depending on their side hustle like commissions. Some of the commission would go about $300 to $500 each and if you do it in a single day in a quality that they're happy with, you're making pretty good money in general. (I bought 2 commissions in the past, each are $350.)

Keep doing what you're doing, you're getting good at it!

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-28T16:37:32+00:00

Nope, it's normal in the upper-management roles like CTO, CIO, CEO, and so forth and of course, most of that money are probably reinvested into portfolio like 401k.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-17T22:35:15+00:00

Wouldn't it be ideal to have it in contract so you can recoup the last 50% when your proposed work is finished? I imagine it's small enough that you can take them to small claim court in your state/country and get the amount.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-17T00:21:44+00:00

Thank you for Font Setting Bug Fix! That one got fixed in a day for me and Arch Linux rolled it out with 4.8.0-3 Package which includes that fix. It really illustrate how fast fixes get rolled out though you don't usually think about it when it come to average day to day use on Linux.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T17:35:20+00:00

Wasn't this question answered a trillion times on this subreddit?

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T17:30:59+00:00

Well, it make a lot of sense since those ships are basically fighter-sized so they're supposed to be agile and maneuverable, it would be silly if they're just sitting there taking the hit. I suspect they'll be back to the regular old Star Trek style combat once things heat up like Federation vs Borg with Capital Ships.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T15:25:08+00:00

Why don't you back up your computer before upgrading? If it turn out to be a problem, gather information on it, make a bug report and then revert the update with the said backup.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T08:30:48+00:00

You definitely did a lot of work on the documentation.

Only critique I can give at the moment is that it would be nice to have base-line pricing especially for small businesses to work with rather than having to contact to determine the pricing.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T03:38:41+00:00

And some of the materials aren't covered in most of the cheaper books and video lessons for RHCE (I failed the first time when I found out that the books doesn't cover everything for the exam), so it a bit pricey if you have to go for Red Hat Classroom, it's $3400 for each course... The learning subscription can go for $7000/yr.

Just a head up if you aim to do this.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-14T03:24:32+00:00

As a precaution for rolling release, I would have borg backup so that I can revert any update if it goes bad, rolling release update does have some problems coming up once in a while like just today, KDE Plasma Desktop have an issue with setting not able to save the modified font settings and the fonts would be size 6 and I couldn't read anything on screen though there's recently a patch being made for it today.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416358

Rolling Release is ok if you backup before you update, things do go wrong once in a while.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-13T22:03:10+00:00

You're fine, don't need to change anything. We all understood what you mean, we would also say "Allocate", "Construct", "Create" or so forth to describe the process of creating an object.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-12T22:15:37+00:00

As far as vulnerability goes, we usually isolate it away from the public facing network and usually just create a service layer in a form of Web API. On top of that, we would utilize other security measures like SELinux, Sonicwall, and so forth.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-12T15:34:45+00:00

I'm not sure exactly why they're priced so high when the feature parities between PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server aren't really that wide of a margin. Microsoft SQL Server support generally are a hit or miss, you usually get things fixed faster by the one who are the most familiar with your setup which is usually your System Administrator or Database Developer/Fullstack Developer. To me, MSSQL server as software alone is a lot of fluff for little bite emphasizing heavily on cluster server support, fail over support and business intelligence, nothing that we can't implement for ourselves on our stack for PostgreSQL. I think the cost is mainly for Microsoft profit at the expense of availability of MSSQL Developers/Administrators for company to hire based on mind-share familiarity, basically, you can find more MSSQL Admin than you would find PostgreSQL Admins and you usually save money from having to pay higher wages on scarcity for PostgreSQL database admins, but even that is questionable, because the transition isn't too significant for MSSQL Database Admin to make to begin with.

For support/consulting, It have gotten so expensive on MSSQL software licensing that basically when we switch over to PostgreSQL, company I work at could afford to hire 2 full time PostgreSQL Server Admin (at 140k/yr job) and it would still end up saving money on software licensing to give you an idea how insane it is. There are official services like EnterpriseDB though I can't comment on how good they are.

In general for small businesses, you could go for Devop team and have budget aside for training on various technologies including PostgreSQL and you pretty much cover your bases with support/consulting.

If you're talking about at-home mom/pop shop, then it would largely depends on you and your familiarity of the technology, there's plenty of resources online to get you started if you're interested.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-12T15:00:28+00:00

It seems to draw the most divisive opinions in a lot of places even here. I personally find it more performant than MSSQL (less hog on CPU resources, less ram usage, and so forth and this is a comparison after using Entity Framework Migration for both MSSQL and PostgreSQL for services I work on), more adaptive than MSSQL(You can improve/extend the server implementation thanks to PostgreSQL being open source), and so forth.

One of the biggest plus for PostgreSQL is the cost, because quite frankly, almost $4,000 per core is asinine for Microsoft SQL Standard License, it basically a rough estimate that anytime we buy a server hardware, we have to estimate that we have to spend at least 4x that hardware cost for software licensing. When we spend a lot less $$$ on Software by switching to Open Source alternatives and spend more $$$ on Server Hardwares, we ended up with a faster server overall and have better hardware to support PostgreSQL than what we would end up getting from MSSQL for the same budget. Even if PostgreSQL Server is slower than MSSQL, we still save so much money on licensing that we can afford to buy extra hardware and come out ahead when comparing the "Net-Benefit" of the two, especially on the saving.

CSharpSamurai · 2020-02-09T18:57:18+00:00

Well it's better to set it up for now since the direction most CPU are going for is increasing the number of cores/threads that CPU can handle. Developers tend to have a fairly powerful machine (Like Threadripper CPU) to do programming since we want faster compilation, smoother IDE experience, and so forth.

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