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>Why have X-Windows or Wayland at all, when you could just run the web browser itself directly on the hardware, as efficiently and flexibly as possible That's
by hollerith 3y ago
>Why have X-Windows or Wayland at all, when you could just run the web browser itself directly on the hardware, as efficiently and flexibly as possible
That's been tried by ChromeOS, and ChromeOS is retreating from that design decision and adding Wayland (as part of a many-years-long rearchitecting called LaCros).
- nolist_policy 3y agoRather, Wayland was still a hobby project during ChromeOS' development and X11 always has been ridiculous security-wise. Also the decision allowed them to tightly tie Chrome into the graphics stack (compressed textures, color-space handling, hw plane accelerated compositing etc.), this has become viable on Wayland only recently.