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Patroncast S04E03 - Should Linux constrain app design?
🕑 Added 2024-01-15 09:56:48 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
I hope you're all doing well :)
In this episode of the patroncast, I talk about
- 00:40 The channel, and wondering how I could bring the longer news podcast to Youtube without it being weird for subscribers (who would get 2 formats of the same content on the same day)
- 10:43 Should the Linux desktop platform constrain app design, as in "Wayland can limit how apps work and are designed, should we do that, or let desktops decide?". Spoiler: both options don't seem great
Let me know what you think, and have a nice week!
Comments
The Linux Experiment
Haha yeah, that's about the gist of it. And I'm not sure yet, I think I like having some opinionated desktops, but do I want all of them to have one single vision / workflow? Not sure
Emil Johansen
Re: Wayland: I'm still out walking, but briefly to provide an equally provocative oversimplified take from the opposite end: Either you want opinionated desktops or you don't ;)
The Linux Experiment
There's definitely some thinking to be done with the news video and the audio podcast. I like both formats, and the audio show is definitely popular, as far as podcasts go. I have had sponsors for it as well, but I'm not sure if this will keep up, as it's obviously getting less listens than the video, so we'll have to see! You're probably right on Wayland, it wouldn't make much sense to build a separate protocol just for a desktop, unless it's for something that they feel is absolutely crucial to the experience they want to offer!
UsernamesAreHard
Hey Nick, hope your week started well. It's cool to hear that the daily news are bringing new members and that you enjoy making those π. I think that your weekly news video and Podcast are redundant one to another and I usually just watch the video, especially now that you release daily news. Can you monetise the podcast on YouTube? Isn't it going to hurt your revenue if you lose views on the weekly news video since you still rely on sponsors? I know that you sometimes talk about certain news on the podcast that you don't talk about in the video, maybe you could take those unreleased podcast news and turn them into YouTube shorts that you release throughout the week as a way to recycle content and fill what's missing from the news video? Plus it would give your channel some more visibility thanks to the shorts. About Wayland restrictions, I think that we need standardization in the Linux world. Sure it will be slower to implement new features, but X11 is full of features and also a security nightmare, it's not acceptable in 2024 to have such a security hole on Linux. I doubt that Wayland will lead to more fragmentation on the Linux desktop, because I think that forking and maintaining a custom Wayland protocol would simply be too much work for smaller desktop environments than Gnome and KDE, so those desktop environments would probably end up disappearing and their Wayland forks too.
