to give you an idea of 1999, I was running Quake 3 on Linux with official Nvidia Riva TNT support and X11. X11 also ran fine in 1995. Granted, I think fvwm2 wa

to give you an idea of 1999, I was running Quake 3 on Linux with official Nvidia Riva TNT support and X11. X11 also ran fine in 1995. Granted, I think fvwm2 was probably state of the art for window managers at the time. From '95 to almost '97 or '98 I stuck pretty much in 80x25 or 80x40 text console. Not because X11 didn't work, but more so because xterm really sucked and the only apps you would use in X11 anyway were Netscape, Gimp or xv (image viewer). Gtk+ also did not exist, so everything was ugly Motif or Tcl/Tk. Oh, and... there was always talk of replacing X11. Even in the '90s. People have been talking about replacing X11 nearly as long as X11 has been around, sadly.