bsiegert

Leaving Amazon AWS

Today, I deleted my Amazon AWS account.

I had been on AWS since about 2011. My usage was mainly for two things:

1. Saving large amounts of files (build logs and such) on S3;
2. Running NetBSD VMs on EC2.

probonopd

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

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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As 2024 is winding down: