A Soil-Tilling Sergal 🌱I want to like the MaXX Interactive Desktop, I love the vibes, but it's so glaringly apparent that Linux is at a crossroads right now in terms of transition from Xorg to Wayland plus the dominance of CEF apps that makes the user experience in MaXX a frustrating mix of windows from common apps that either behave normally, or require an alt+click to move: Discord and Steam, for example. Also, heaven help you with good eyesight if you have a 4K display.
I'm no stranger to piecing together a functional experience (MaXX requires you to pick your own clipboard utility if you want copy-paste functionality between apps, y'know, the way we used to do things when the UNIX philosophy mattered) but this is stuff that's outside the purvey of MaXX development: the software ecosystem has changed significantly from the '90s.
I guess common users aren't the target for MaXX, as it seems to relish its history in high performance computing and demanding media creation pipelines where a resource-light desktop helps, but it would also help revive old hardware, which is of particular interest to me given that every tech company on the planet has decided to ratfuck anyone who wants to build their own PC, and purchasing a few components earlier this year for our family's PCs has put us dangerously close to the red line in terms of finances.
And yes, there's other lightweight window managers out there. I could install Fluxbox or FVWM right now if I wanted to, but there's something charming about IRIX, eh?
Joachim Weber [friendica] 🦖 🦔 🐲
