>That eventually got fixed with the Intel/AMD graphics graphics open sourcing 2008-2018; at the moment X is becoming a very thin comparability layer for most pe

>That eventually got fixed with the Intel/AMD graphics graphics open sourcing 2008-2018; at the moment X is becoming a very thin comparability layer for most people and a mandatory pain for Nvidia users as far as I know. It's even better than that now. For me no part of X is running as root. Last I checked the only reason anyone had X as root (other than driver issues) was if they were running a graphical login manager). Since the login manager has to be up and running before any users are logged in, and likely requires X, it makes since that it's got to run in a privileged context, and works most easily as root. In my case I just use xinit to start my graphical sessions after I've logged directly into a (getty) terminal. I think supposedly GDM can do rootless X, but I haven't tested that.