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Could've fooled me! I've only ever seen Linux devices run Xorg. Maybe some embedded hardware runs an alternative, but Xorg seems to be the de facto standard for
by jeroenhd 2y ago
Could've fooled me! I've only ever seen Linux devices run Xorg. Maybe some embedded hardware runs an alternative, but Xorg seems to be the de facto standard for desktop Linux.
This isn't a big issue because Xorg splits a basic GUI into dozens of different daemons and services (compositors, window managers, input daemons) so it seems like there are different X11 implementations even when there's usually only Xorg.
- account42 2y agoGive Wayland a bit more time and it will also ossify to the point where it becomes unviable to create competing implementations. Most of the smaller compositors are already there.
- immibis 2y agowlroots appears to be the single ossified implementation of Wayland.
- bluGill 2y agoOnly linux. I have run several different X servers on windows (3.1), OS/2, and such. But xorg is free and so that is what you use on linux.
- Lammy 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:X_servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:X_servers