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But who actually uses X? It serves no purpose in 2023 where network links can just push pixels?
by pelorat 4y ago
But who actually uses X? It serves no purpose in 2023 where network links can just push pixels?
- pmontra 4y agoI recently installed Debian 11 to move away from Ubuntu, which is starting to annoy me with all those snaps. Debian starts with Wayland as default. It worked and I realized I was in Wayland only after I started digging into the refresh settings, because I had some wave patterns on screen. It's an old laptop from 2014 with a NVIDIA K1100M. It turned out that Noveau doesn't handle it well with any of the available refresh rates of 60, 59.95 and 40 Hz: the wave patterns never goes away. I installed the NVIDIA driver, which works only with X11, and my display is fine at 40 Hz, same as it was in Ubuntu. So I'm using X11 in 2023 and probably will until this laptop will work for me. Feature wise X11 has demonstrated to have all I need, since 1990. I don't need Wayland.
- QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y agoEven if you don't need any features in Wayland there are still benefits, it closes some security holes and it fixes some long-standing bugs in X. Of course it also creates some new bugs like your buggy nvidia driver.