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This looks awesome.

Looks like it could be a very good alternative to mutter and kwin.

Questions:

• what about Vulkan instead GL? Should be more performant and use less battery. Especially if it is meant to also work on mobile.
• is Louvre drawing those window decorations?
• there is some overlap with https://github.com/winft/theseus-ship - any idea for a collaboration there?
• there seems to be a company behind, while I didn't investigate, are there plans for further development that you would publish, is there a way to influence those plans (suggestions, donations, some other way)
• any plans to make a shell around it?
• it is mentioned that this is a library, but obviously there is a working compositor. Regardless if this is a technology demonstrator, would it be possible to publish a compositor with decent theming and a few distinct layer modes (classic windows with taskbar, windows 8 like, Mac, gnome, ubuntu). I guess many smaller Linux DEs would consider it then...
• how does it compare to kwin/mutter?

It has SJ in the description

Mozilla, partners, and participants will explore threats AI poses to democracy and social justice https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/togetherness-and-solidarity-explore-the-mozfest-house-amsterdam-program/

While somebody needs to do this, somebody also needs to do the browser development. And Mozilla has been neglecting and deliberately decimating firefox market share with stupid decisions. Funding Mozilla meant funding everything else except Firefox.

This way we may get the chance to fund exclusively Firefox and not other nonsense.

Who owns copyright for this photo? I really like this one and would like to (maybe) use it on a website

The only thing i missed was some KDE apps since they look butt ugly on gnome so you have to find alternatives. Krita comes to mind.

You don't have Krunner, but when you press meta/start button, you get a text field in the overview that works similar. I used krunner only to start the apps and gnome overview gave me exactly the same functionality. So the thing that changed is keyboard shortcut: instead alt-f2, you would use meta/start and just start typing.

Just try it out and see if there is something you miss.

If you do switch, try to use it as meant by gnome ux, do not force it to be something it is not. This is what I did initially and after suffering for a while (I missed the start menu so used extensions etc) I dropped all extensions and tried to use it vanilla. After a month or two, workflow really stuck and I prefer it to windows and kde. Simplicity of it works for me since I don't use it for anything but starting other apps: browser, terminal, files, vscode... Also, when you add apps to dock, you can start them with alt-number (this works in kde and windows as well), so even the dock I find irrelevant.

You also get something more in functionality, apps and stability (not that you only lose stuff moving off kde). E.g. accessing Samba shares with smb:// works well in gnome, where you can open movies from the share directly. While you can open the share in dolphin, you cannot open the movie directly from the remote location, you need to copy it first. (At least my experience before plasma 6, maybe it changed...). Another example is gnome boxes for VMs which is great.

Edit: one thing I do miss - systray.

I agree with you sentiment here. That's why I wrote 'relative terms' in my comment.

Since Nadela took over, Microsoft did some open thing which benefited community. So, Microsoft opened somewhat.

During the same time, under Pichai, google went the other way: they focus more on monetization and try to control stuff the apple way. Manifest v3? Google also didn't do anything really worth mentioning in the last 10y in terms of products. Well, except 'attention' article. And even this they didn't believe in and they cannot deliver a decent product. I just tried google advanced Gemini and it's, to put it politely, shit. Google also had some positive actions like mainlining a lot of stuff in Linux Kernel to more easily upgrade android.

So, while google is closing down and making mistakes, Microsoft is opening a bit up.

If you look the state from the last year and the state now. Microsoft improved. Google went the other way.

Microsoft doesn't care about open source, they care about the money Cloud Services using open source bring them. I don't think google cares as well. For reason read this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Probably people think this is a troll or something.

I wrote it because I was surprised, especially since I'm not a fan of microsoft and their policies. Lately, I have the feeling Microsoft is better than Google (relative terms) when it comes to oss.

What is additionally surprising is the breaches of Microsoft services in the last year. There is one every few weeks or so... And then they pick up a backdoor because login took 0.5 instead of 0.1s.

Anyway, his findings are amazing.

Microsoft employee.

This was a great talk (video you linked, not the article). Wonder what Linus would say about C being a wrong thing today.

Can you elaborate on this?

I am looking into doing the same as op and I have no idea what I'm doing.

If you have been running servers since the 90s, can you provide the list of do and donts?