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Apologies, but I don't understand your comment. The original article said X.org is unmaintained. Your comment basically replied "it works for me and I like it,
by tupputuppu 6y ago
Apologies, but I don't understand your comment. The original article said X.org is unmaintained. Your comment basically replied "it works for me and I like it, Wayland doesn't cut it".
Sure - great opinion - but doesn't change the state of the world, which is that X.org is unmaintained and all the real development firepower has moved on to Wayland.
We can all have opinions and I kind of agree with yours, but the article is about the realities of life and facts which we need to accept.
- ddingus 6y ago"Need to accept" vs "get stuff done" = "use Windows or OSX" Fact is the people who developed X thought through multi user graphical computing. That process has not really happened since. It needs to, or we just won't see desktop Linux compete.
- pjmlp 6y ago2% after 30 years in the making, and hatred for the GNOME and KDE communities, always pushing for PDP-11 experience with multiple xterms like I was doing in 1994 on IBM X Window terminals on the university campus with DG/UX, I already gave up around Windows 7 release.
- ddingus 6y agoI used X on SGI and have yet to have as robust an experience on any of the OSes. When the thinking it through gets done, the result is powerful.
- rleigh 6y agoIt doesn't matter one jot that the "development firepower" has moved on. We have a 30+ year legacy of using X11. I know the CADT development model doesn't care about that. But all the people using X11-based applications do care. We aren't going to move off X11 on the whim of people who care more about "the new shiny" than they do about the real-world needs of people who use this stuff to run their businesses. These people have done more to destroy the viability of Linux as a desktop platform over the last 15 years than anything else.