Yes that’s the case under GNOME, KDE and sway.

And how many devops have been driven to madness trying to configure what should be a simple task.

I guess my point is, you should :)

I use firefox exclusively, on both my laptop and my phone. It works perfectly on any website I throw at it. I work for a startup which makes video call apps, the web client works perfectly under Firefox, and there’s a grand total of 2 devs working on it.

All this to say that if I come across your website and it doesn’t work under Firefox, AFAIC it’s your website that has issues, not Firefox.

As for the reason, you might be fine with a single megacorp dictating the way the web works, but for many of us who remember what it was like in the IE hegemony days it’s a serious concern.

making nothing illegal would mean no more crime

Nah, they’d focus on the important crimes, like pot smoking and abortions.

I actually wasn’t sure until I checked the URL.

I dont know, free beer and a flat earth exposé could be pretty entertaining.

Works great on my laptop. It takes automatic snapshots before and after running the package manager, no problem so far.

Yeah but for a publicly traded company, quarterly growth is the name of the game. If the numbers go down long enough, it’s game over for them.

I used a compose file from reddit and made a couple of adjustments, it was pretty quick and works great. I dont have a VPN though.

Because having each piece of software do it itself would be not only chaos but a massive security concern.

Not really, the main point is that (most) apps don’t know where they are on the screen, whether they’re minimized, on the active workspace, … and they don’t care either. That’s the responsibility of the window manager.

The app tells the display server “I need a window to display these pixels” and that’s it. And the window manager, well, manages these windows.

On the topic of security, X11 doesn’t handle security at all, that’s one of the main issues. So any graphical app can read the other windows’ pixels, grab everything you type, everything you copy, … OTOH Wayland isolates apps so they can’t do that by default. Apps that really need to (screenshot apps, …) can use “portals” to ask for these permissions.

The debate is as old as Linux itself, and well documented.