like what if linux still was open source but had a lot of proprietary dependencies and packages and became more popular and therefore proprietary software came to it?? but it still would let you use any desktop environment and there would be a new proprietary desktop environment which was like gnome but easier

  • tekato@lemmy.world
    6·
    14 days ago

    TRULY modern OS

    What does this even mean? So iOS, MacOS, Windows11, Linux aren’t modern?

    a way better compositor than wayland (in fact, android has the best compositor in the world, compared to ANY OS)

    Wayland is not a compositor, it’s a protocol. SurfaceFlinger can totally be made in Wayland. Saying SurfaceFlinger is better than Wayland is like saying words are better than English.

    A properly modified desktop OS based on it (better than Samsung’s DeX for example), that is also able to run normal Linux apps, would be a huge winner.

    Nobody will ever use this on Linux, unless it is implemented in Wayland. It is infinitely more likely for Android to rewrite its compositor for Wayland than SurfaceFlinger being adopted as Linux’s main compositor.

    • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Wayland is not as advanced as android’s system, so i don’t see why not use android’s. The license for it is fine.