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Please don't promote Wayland (stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app)
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[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 2 days ago

I got news for you:

  • X11 has seen many extensions, competing standards, fragmented implementations, ambiguous “best choices” for users, etc.

  • MacOS and Windows have seen many API changes, deprecations, even wholesale language and architecture swaps.

  • X11 is a 40 year old architecture that is far from optimal.

  • The people doing the work set the standard in the Free Software world. They stopped working on XFree86.

  • Part of the friction getting linux on the desktop is due to X11.

  • You can still run twm and X. No one is stopping you.