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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active August 16, 2025 00:36
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

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Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

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ForgottenUmbrella / using_conan_cpp.md
Last active July 18, 2025 11:11
How to use Conan, a C++ package manager, for beginners

Package Management in C++ with Conan for Beginners

C++ package management can be complicated.

Below are some key tools involved:

Make

Make runs commands defined in a Makefile, for example, to build and install programs with the compiler and linker. For our purposes, we won't worry about what this looks like; you only need to understand its purpose in relation to CMake.