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0 pointsGigachad3y ago0 comments

These days it’s pretty much done and finished. Xwayland works fairly well to the point you almost couldn’t tell.

The only issue with wayland usage currently is apps in the xwayland compatibility layer are lacking the new features wayland adds like dpi scaling across screens.

I’m very happy that wayland + pipewire + flatpak now gives us basic security practices like apps having to ask permission to record the mic/screen/webcam vs the state of things in X where being able to draw a window also grants full access to everything.

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jrm43y ago

Mostly fail to see the value in the specific thing you're saying; essentially this is the sort of thing that e.g. free/open source ought to take care of regardless.

As in, this is "taken care of" when you agree to install the application; is there any serious reason to believe that security against an "installed application" from a repo benefits from this rather fine grained permission as opposed to what is already in place?

And of course the real issue is usually just "the web browser" which, hey, all bets are off.

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