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The existence of X has nothing to do with the multitude of desktop environments. At all. In fact they are almost all working or working to port over to Wayland/

The existence of X has nothing to do with the multitude of desktop environments. At all. In fact they are almost all working or working to port over to Wayland/Weston already anyway. Why on God's earth would someone want Android on a desktop machine? Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? The day that happens is the day the core base of Linux users ditches Linux. It flatly will never happen. You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"?

gte910h 14y ago
>Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? Because, if a company is going to write software to run on lots of machines and be closed sourced like most commercial software, it is going to require a pretty stable target to run on. When there are 25 different popular Linux configurations, it is prohibitively expensive to test them all for the number of individual users for each configurations. > You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"? No, I think game/software vendors are going to ignore one or the other, following the lead of someone like valve. Then that one will become very niche, like the BSDs