> What you're describing is a massive hack built on a foundation of sand, and its absence is NOT an indication of Wayland's "truly flawed" protocol design, whic

> What you're describing is a massive hack built on a foundation of sand, and its absence is NOT an indication of Wayland's "truly flawed" protocol design, which I'm certain you haven't read about anyway. Serialized GLX was introduced by SGI before direct rendering was even possible. It is what the creators of OpenGL originally envisioned (Graphics terminals connected to servers). If anything DRI that came afterwards was the hack. Serialized GLX doesn't make sense in every context, I agree with that. But it is great to have the option. X11 offers that option, Wayland does not. Of course you could write your own proprietary client server architecture on top of the Wayland protocol. But why reinvent the wheel?