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Isn't the Linux world (slowly) moving away from x11, though? (If you can't tell, I'm not a Linux user, I was many years ago and I'd like to go back some day. T

Isn't the Linux world (slowly) moving away from x11, though? (If you can't tell, I'm not a Linux user, I was many years ago and I'd like to go back some day. These types of library compatibility issues are a major part of what's keeping me away—I want to know that most apps from 15 years ago will still work, and most of the apps I have today will still work in another 15 years.)

stormbrew 5y ago
Things are moving to wayland, but x11 is never going to go completely away. Xwayland provides an xserver that can be used within wayland. Some of the things you listed as problems would be problems anyways in wayland, because they have to do with the fact that wayland doesn't, for example, give unrestricted access to every single program's image buffer from any program (for good reason).
- account42 5y ago
  > for good reason For reasons that do not apply to all use cases like local applications that already have full access to ~/.
  - stormbrew 5y ago
    I don't really agree. There's a lot of information on my screen at any given moment that's not usefully represented on disk.
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