technical choice mostly dictated by my being an old fart and not seeing yet a need for my (limited) use cases.
It’s not a technical choice, it’s 100% you being an old fart 😃
I know because I am too, and I realized a long time ago that the more you know, the more you tend to reject stuff that puts you out of the comfort zone of what you know. It’s not a criticism, it’s just human nature: people abhor change.
And so I made it into a habit, every once in a while, to consider something that’s been around for a while and that’s have a dull feeling I should take a proper look into at some point, and then throw myself recklessly into it, trying to learn as much as possible about it without preconceptions, and kind of “make it my own” so-to-speak. By the time I’m done and I’m comfortable with it, well, I’m in my comfort zone again and I can now use the modern stuff too without fear of flying into a rant like an old fart 😃
I did that with systemd, and I did that too with Wayland quite recently. I mostly like Wayland, but I will say this: considering how old it is, it still missing basic functionalities that make using it for basic things like remoting quite stupidly painful. But by and large, it’s okay. It’s not better or worse than X, just a different set of stupids.
It’s not a technical choice, it’s 100% you being an old fart 😃
I know because I am too, and I realized a long time ago that the more you know, the more you tend to reject stuff that puts you out of the comfort zone of what you know. It’s not a criticism, it’s just human nature: people abhor change.
And so I made it into a habit, every once in a while, to consider something that’s been around for a while and that’s have a dull feeling I should take a proper look into at some point, and then throw myself recklessly into it, trying to learn as much as possible about it without preconceptions, and kind of “make it my own” so-to-speak. By the time I’m done and I’m comfortable with it, well, I’m in my comfort zone again and I can now use the modern stuff too without fear of flying into a rant like an old fart 😃
I did that with systemd, and I did that too with Wayland quite recently. I mostly like Wayland, but I will say this: considering how old it is, it still missing basic functionalities that make using it for basic things like remoting quite stupidly painful. But by and large, it’s okay. It’s not better or worse than X, just a different set of stupids.