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Oh, for sure. I've been using X in various capacities for ~3 decades. I remember how it was. I'm impressed with how it is. I recently switched back to X as
by ssl-3 2y ago
Oh, for sure. I've been using X in various capacities for ~3 decades.
I remember how it was. I'm impressed with how it is.
I recently switched back to X as a primary desktop after a rather long hiatus of doing [mostly!] other things. There was some initial driver discourse (standard nVidia vs. OSS necessary nonsense), but it wasn't really so bad once I sorted out what I needed and most "regular" Linux users can skip by a lot of this by default.
So far, I've done zero manual configuration of X itself outside of using XFCE4's GUI tools to arrange the three monitors in front of me in the right order -- and I don't presently see any reason to change anything else.
It's been very pleasant, all said, even though I got here on Medium-Hard Mode with an a rather barebones base install of Void on an existing ZFS pool for root.
X really was one of the easier parts of the whole operation.
(I have no interest in Wayland. It offers no clear advantage to me as a user that I can identify; even the games I like to play run splendidly in X. I've also always adored the concept of remotely displaying GUI applications. It's convenient -- I ran remote X apps for years immediately prior to this recent switch, and it worked well. Remote X apps have saved my bacon a few times by allowing me to quickly get a thing done in a familiar way instead of learning how to do it using something else entirely and maybe stuffing it up in some unforeseen fashion.)