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   -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-   
      
    AT> With the latest releases of Chrome and Edge browsers for Linux/Debian,   
    AT> there's a very noticeable issue with accelerated graphics. On certain   
    AT> websites, even gmail.com, there are weird shapes covering elements.   
      
   I've heard of this, but never seen it first hand.  Chrome and Edge are spyware   
   and won't be on my Linux systems.  We use Brave - and now we get political.   
      
    AT> I think it's political. Only elite developers know the workaround for   
    AT> developers. For users, the workaround is to disable accelerated   
    AT> graphics in Chrome's system settings (but who's gonna bother to do   
    AT> that?)   
      
   The normal software used to manage the screen and keyboard input for Linux   
   distros is X11.  But there are some people who say that X11 is "long and the   
   tooth" and needs a rewrite - they may be right.  BUT that rewrite, called   
   Wayland, is very far from being ready for prime time.   
      
   And now we get into the politics here.   
      
   The company (Red Hat?) who controlled X11 effectively choked it by not allowing   
   people to make bug fixes and enhancements for it.  Finally it came to a head   
   and they publically admitted they wanted to kill X11 in favor of Wayland.   
      
   Now this would all seem like a group of geeks and nerds having a "vi vs. emacs"   
   type of argument.  But when you actually look at what's going on the Open   
   Source community, it seems that many open source projects have been taken over   
   by the Wokies.   
      
   And the Wokies are, without exception, completely incompetent so something like   
   Wayland will never be complete or feature match X11 - especially now that   
   someone forked X11 into XLibre, applied all those bug fixes and enhancements.   
      
   XLibre has shown everyone how Woke things have become - not by discussion   
   technical issues, but by the normal Woke plays being made.   
      
   And what's political about the Brave browser?  It seems that many Wokies don't   
   like the politics of the guy who writes it.  So they bad mouth it all the time.   
      
      
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