If you need XDMCP then by all means use the software that suits you, but the rest of your points are utter crap. Let's address them:

** You don't agree Wayland is stable? I've never had it crash once. Actually switching to Wayland when X.org was the default in Ubuntu solved a monitor resolution issue I had.
** Wayland supports all chipsets and systems I care about too. What are you are specifically missing? Saying something works as intended isn't a counter claim to something else.
** Wayland breaking apps is by design. Many of the apps that were "broken" required nasty workarounds to get them running on X.org. The overwhelming majority of apps don't care what system you run them on. DEs may care, all major ones have adopted Wayland. Again this was by design. The whole purpose of Wayland was to cut ties with the cruft of the past. This was a very welcome changed pushed forward by the very people who wrote the original libraries (much of the Wayland development team are ex-X11 developers).
** What are you missing in the app world that needs to be Wayland friendly? I have not come across a single app that hasn't worked on Wayland. Not one. Not now, not 5 years ago. I'm sure you have one, but really it's not a scenario common to computing.
** That guy's blog is a good one. It summarises why there are problems with porting and why they were the result of X11's legacy cruft. There are no problems with porting. There's just adapting to simpler ways of doing things, and removing functionality from compositors into external libraries and the DE which never belonged in the compositor in the first place. That blog even talks about how this is all a good thing.
** What needle did you want Wayland to move? It's the default on many major Linux distros and seemingly just works. Personally I'm tired of X11 fanbois who stuck their head in the sand because someone moved their cheese. The X11 people are completely obnoxious thinking that their way is the only true way of doing things, and pretend like the replacement system isn't already more performant while at the same time actively bitching about the very elegance that Wayland brought (just like you did in this post now).

*yawn* okay boomer. - Am I obnoxious? Yes, I treat people with the respect they treat others, and this is all the respect you deserve.

No Windows 11 does not "now" come with adware. That feature is old. It predates Windows 11 itself. Even Windows 10 was putting recommended apps (ads) in the start menu. And the toggle to turn it off and on dates from Windows 10 and was brought over in Windows 11.

I can't wait for the writer to go outside when it's raining and declare "after 40 years in journalism I just discovered water makes things wet!"

Yeah I'm not offended as such, but I am often mystified.

I've never found it very simple, and it lacks so much by the way of tweaks that unless if perfectly fits then tough.

For standard desktop stuff, XFCE is excellent. It's efficient, be straightforward, and customisation is possible but not necessary to get started, and generally very unsurprising in what it does. It's not a trend chaser so every version is just an updated spin on the one before.

I generally use FVWM, which, well you'd likely hate my config, but I've spent nearly 3 decades slowly bending out around me and it has nothing superfluous to get in the way, and lots of tweaks for programs that think they know better...

But yeah if you just want a straightforward desktop that's not a straitjacket, XFCE is I reckon where it's at. I never got into KDE, I flirted with window maker a bit, but personally I find gnome also too much like a cut rate knock-off of commercial systems, not the best Linux that Linux can be.

I would say though trust the gnome desktop is dominant to the point where it had a huge amount of influence to break things that don't fit within it's philosophy. Combined with the occasional target obnoxious quote from some of the core people, I can see where some of the annoyance comes from.

Losers almost alway have an excuse for their failure, and it never ever involves them. It's always the system or at this time, those damn boomers.

And yet, there are successful millennials and GenZ. Those successful ones tend to take accountability.

Trigger alert!

From a Boomer to a Doomer - if you are right down at the bottom of the barrel, the ultimate victim of the horrible system, the person whom the system actively grinds down...

Perhaps a little introspection is in order. Yeah, I'm a boomer. Big deal, there are boomers among the losingist losers ever. You doomers didn't invent losers.

My millennial son is doing just fine, rising in his company, and is going to buy a house soon.

Wife's best friend has 2 millennial sons, gainfully employed, and own houses.

The same with other friends children, I just give three examples.

Things to ponder:

Maybe it has something to do with attitude

No one owes you anything.

No one owes you a 6 or 7 figure job.

No one owes you a one skill-set for life - if your skill-set becomes useless, develop a new skill-set.

Bring value added to your work.-If you bring no value added to your work, you are mediocre at best Tha man is not your enemy, unless you choose to make tha man your enemy.

For my own case, I've been called to work after retirement because it was difficult to find young people to fill the position. They stressed over minutae. They wanted really high pay without experience, and they had absorbed the teaching that they were the most important person in the universe, before, or now, or forever after.

They all crashed and burned, usually sinking into depression when they found out they were just 1 out of 8 billion people, and about as special as a grain of sand.

So while I probably gave you super high blood pressure, just consider that my advice might have some use, or you can revel in being a loser - it is after all, easier than the work to be successful.

When they bring all the lower level staff there.
Who don't vote GOP.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

"Hire someone without experience"? "Train them"? I think I've worked for two companies in nearly 40 years that did *any* training. They want to hire you as a bottom level, but want 3-5 years experience. All of 'em.

Surely there are some folks, actual nerds, who still read slashdot who remember the ads for someone with five years experience in python... three years after 1.0 was officially released.

I guess that means I can't buy one, and send it to the next CPAC conference.

To a techie mailing list I'm on.

Here's evidence it worse than sucks: I'm working on some revisions to what was a short story, and may turn into a novelette. I need some information about the Russian city of Kursk around the year 1200. Five or six years ago, I found, among other things, a pic of a drawing? painting" of the city no later than 1600.

Now? Even after I exclude from the search battle, ussr, soviet, nuclear and a few more items, I can't find any real history of the city, when its walls were built, *zippo*.

Nothing to disagree with you there. I suspect that a limited scope is part of the design. I'm thinking that in the use cases this is designed for, that the doggo will head out maybe 50 feet from the human operator, spray a firebreak, then had back and be turned off, or maybe reloaded. It might be more busy when used for a controlled burn.

But that limited scope thing. Controlled burns are not particularly safe, and firebreak setting is really dangerous. pretty near the fire, and there is the possibility that the fire could crown, and you probably won't survive if that happens, it's a game of inches at that point. So you really don't want the thing to carry a whole lot of gasoline. If you had a I>big fire spitting doggo, and it was caught and disabled during a controlled burn, the control might be lost.

Before going too far, people who use flamethrowers against others, especially in t-word usage deserve being terminated with extreme prejudice. At least in my estimation.

But this pretend doggo with a flamethrower on top is aimed at a practical market. firefighting and controlled burning. As a tactical weapon, it is pretty lame. Simple to take out.

For all of that, it has pretty much the same possibilities that all of the flamethrowers of the past had. The question is why would one with the form factor of a canine suddenly cause people to use them as a tool against people in a never before thought of way? And it is not designed for an environment in which others are trying to destroy it. Sneak up on it from behind, grab it and whack it with a hammer. Or carry a shield and encroach it, then whack it.

But these other possibilities...Organic farming, a worthwhile endeavor uses flamethrowers as devices to "weed" fields. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I can imagine anti -personnel uses for that.

And if you want to really get scared, WD-40 makes a pretty decent short-range flamethrower.

In the end, it isn't that this might be used for nefarious purposes. It's that darn near everything can be used for evil.

All true. It "walks" like a dog, and has that doggish look. The awkward thing is that yes, the doggone thing is kind of cute. Until it spits at you, of course.

One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.

I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.