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From: Zach Metzinger <please@ask.me.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Wayland Is Coming
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 11:11:54 -0500
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On 5/7/24 23:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> So, X11 development has been moribund for years. All the major GUI
> environments are adding Wayland support now.
> 
> X11 is full of legacy cruft, like that graphics API (at least the font
> server API went away years ago).

... but does it work "well enough"? Yes.

So many promises over the years of something better, but none have 
displaced X11.

Remember this one?

https://github.com/graydon/berlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin-windowing-system-screenshot.png

--- Zach