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diathtoday at 10:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's actually wild that they're trying to sell lack of basic desktop features as "security features". Try explaining to an average person that when they are playing a game and want to capture a cool moment to share on Discord with their friends that by design the window server they are using will not let them do that and it's "for their own good". Like God forbid I want my computer to be actually usable. We had the same situation in the past when Wayland lacked a way to lock in the cursor within a window and it took them like 8 years to develop a "protocol" or whatever they call it. Imagine that for each basic desktop usability/UX feature, we will have to wait another decade. At that rate Linux will never have widespread adoption on desktop. Wayland sometimes feels like an active effort to sabotage Linux on desktop.