Message-ID: <683a690e@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <100le5o$318dd$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1016dr6$1e7od$1@news1.tnib.de> <1016gih$355q7$6@dont-email.me> <1019l0j$3s6rv$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 31 May 2025 12:27:26 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 31 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Borax Man wrote: > X11 has issues, but it works, and has powered Unix GUI's for decades. > > I find it useful, and if it is inefficient, it hasn't been that much of > an issue. It's efficient enough to run fine on the Pentium 1 PC I'm posting from now. > Likewise, I'll be happy to go to Wayland, when doing so is almost > seamless. > > As of now, I think I could use it, but all the DE's/window Managers that > I would want to use are X11. Almost all the graphical programs I use regularly don't support Wayland because they either use an old graphics toolkit that doesn't support it (GTK2, Motif) or don't use a graphics toolkit at all and link directly to xlib. So even if I saw a reason to switch, I'd have to change most of the software I use (likely to slower alternatives) or I'd be running everything in XWayland anyway. Luckily I don't do graphics intensive stuff so if people stop writing GPU drivers for X it won't affect me, and I can do the work of building it myself (with patches if required) if distros stop packaging it. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#