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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 29/05/2025 13:07, Borax Man wrote:
>> I'm sticking with X11 until it is no longer viable.
> 
> I'm sticking with it until everything I want to do runs on Wayland.
> 
> I don't *like* X11. But it now just about works OK

I like it, but I'm less convinced about more recent changes in
Xorg which seem to make it slower and less capable at the same
time.

> It uses a lot of memory for what it is.

TinyX doesn't use much and it's still maintained separately by a
couple of forks. Faster to start too. Although graphics drivers are
outdated.

> Lord knows how much CPU it munches just moving windows around

If you're using a GPU driver with Xorg then most of that processing
should be done on there.

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