Have you tried what the message tells you?

Supports both programming and gaming

Both is super uncritical.

You can install Steam as Flatpak without any real or major issues nowadays and thanks to Proton you can basically play any games except those that use Windows-specific ring 0 spyware as their DRM or anti-cheat mechanism. Pro-Flatpak: You don’t need to deal with 32-bit libs dependency hell.

Same with programing. The relevant compilers are all available for pretty much all common distributions. Same with the common scripting interpreters as well as all common IDEs.

but I’m considering moving it to a VM if the performance impact is manageable

Depending on your VM solution you can usually pass-through CPU and/or GPU and have nearly the same performance as on bare metal.

but am open to exploring new options.

This might be a bold move, but have you considered Arch Linux? You need to do most things by yourself, but the wiki is one of the best and most complete and extensive distribution-specific Linux wikis available. So if you’re willing to read instructions and learn new things, why not give it a try? (Disclosure: Arch is my daily driver since 2008 on desktops, laptops and homeservers).

That’s a lot of text for “we’re not open source, please don’t trust us and please use another system”.

Of course!

WinAmp hurt itself while slapping

… and use a name where the acronym also is WP.

I’m not going to search further to find the original discussion, but another user in this thread mentions seeing talk of this about a year ago.

There were plenty of those threads and discussions happening during the past few years. This is a constant topic that came up in the forums and sometimes GitHub over and over again.

It initially was that. Also the name wasn’t meant to stick around forever.

But, out of a sudden, between updates, not even the new website URLs ready?

I don’t follow Minetest development that closely anymore, but last time I checked there were no issues or pull requests on their GitHub, nor something official regarding a name change in the forums.

This feels like there are just a bunch of people haphazardly deciding there is a new name now.

It IS a terrible name. But it also is an over one decade old brand.

It will be hard to propagate the new name and have it as recognizable as “Minetest”.

Luh-Anti?

Also luanti.net (which would be the most logical step to use that address because of the same TLD).

Why isn’t something like this done prior to announcing the new name …

Is this an out-of-season April Fools’ joke?

So Arch now is a corporate distribution?

The screen capture protocol was merged a month ago.

That’s part of my issue I have with Wayland protocols. It was added a month ago. After several years! During research I found discussions ~6 years old, this PR was 2 years old, and superseded a 4 years old other request.

In the meantime some environments implemented that on their own without waiting for the protocol. If I understand correctly: Gnome as well as KDE have implemented it outside the protocol. And Hyprland devs forked wlroots to advance development faster and also add that. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

Since labwc uses wlroots (but is a bit slow with adapting to new versions) it will take quite some time before I can put a checkmark after my last usecase. I am optimistic that it will work. But I accepted that it may take several years to add new functionality and a few months before the functionality arrives in wlroots and at some point after that in labwc.

No one will use a fork of Wayland. That would be suicide.

Famous last words …

You cannot even record single windows without having your DE patching that in for you.

X11 […] has become an unmaintainable patchwork of additions.

Wayland will be an unmaintainable patchwork of protocols, once it will have the same functionality as X11 has.

Now, 12 years later, it still is not production ready.

I use it on both my laptop and my desktop computer. It got better during the last 1-2 years.

While my laptop (13" 1080p screen) is pretty much fine running with Hyprland on an integrated Intel GPU, my desktop computer with a 28" 4K screen scaling is messed up completely and needs tweaking, sometimes down to a per-program base. Sometimes the font is gigantic sometimes I need a microscope to see anything. That was definitely better on X11.

On my desktop I run labwc, that does not come with own functionality regarding this: I just recently got whole-screen video recording and now have to wait likely another year or two for single-window recording. (There is a protocol for this, that took two years to be merged, which is just ridiculous for such a low-level base functionality that should be implemented from the beginning on.)

Other than that, all my common programs are running okay with Wayland.

Good luck!

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I personally think it is a very bad idea to “speed run development” of protocols.

Stalling the development of protocols for nearly a decade is bad, too.

They should talk and meet somewhere between “Just develop in production!” and “I personally dislike it for non-technical reasons, so I will block it for everyone!”