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Are we There yet? Current adoption status of various technologies (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by avidseeker@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet?

I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is it with this obsession with JPEG-XL? I keep seeing it mentioned on lots of threads, but as a user, the benefits seem marginal? Like: would be nice, but I'd expect more significant benefits from something that's brought up this often - so which benefits am I missing?

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly? I agree with you that the benefits seem kind of marginal. But I still think it's a fascinating thing. :)

Edit:

On doing some reading about it and trying it out for myself, the file size reductions are hardly marginal. It's actually quite impressive. Still, it seems for most people, including myself, that jpeg for lossy & png for lossless is more than adequate, especially with how cheap storage is nowadays.

(And, frankly, I appreciate seeing at a glance if an image is lossy or lossless, but I imagine that's a priority most people don't have. Lol.)

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I mean - it's not that the file size reduction is minimal, but that the benefits of that are fine, but not earth-shattering.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I can agree with that.