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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS <nospam@dfs.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: X is Alive! Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:44:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <usl2j1$34lr8$2@dont-email.me> References: <17bb2efa1724fe88$1991$3078224$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <usl0ia$348lm$1@dont-email.me> <usl1ht$347pu$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:44:34 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ec05b6bf3a15acd02cf034c1d7a8084f"; logging-data="3299176"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+KUWGn/+jlWV9G3vSx44uN" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yb97msdS8PzNCtKhRB13EYEBBEA= In-Reply-To: <usl1ht$347pu$2@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2304 On 3/10/2024 3:26 PM, vallor wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:10:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 > <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in > <usl0ia$348lm$1@dont-email.me>: > >> Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> wrote at 19:22 this Saturday (GMT): >>> All the fucking worthless doomsayers in the on-line press have a habit >>> of claiming that X Window is dead. >>> >>> But my Gentoo emerge for this week saw that following X updates: >>> >>> libXdmcp >>> libxcb >>> xlsfonts >>> xrefresh >>> libXcursor >>> xev >>> xauth >>> xpr >>> libXaw3d >>> x11-apps/editres >>> xfontsel >>> xmessage >>> >>> Whoa! That's a lot of fucking updates! >>> >>> X Window is very much alive and kicking. >>> >>> I will soon be exploring Wayland but X Window will be my main GUI >>> for a LONG time. >> >> I prefer X too. > > Same here, though the games I run use DXVK to talk to the Vulkan > API on NVidia's Linux driver. (I think X is only minimally-involved > there.) > > BTW: It's not "X Window" it's "the X Window System", or just "X". > > Sometimes, people call it "X Windows", but I've never > seen "X Window" unless discussing an actual window on X. Another off-charter post.