Post #4327778

2026-08-02 10:19 UTC

@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social It's a more modern architecture that aligns better with how modern GPUs work. X11 is from the 80s and modern concepts have just constantly been piled up on top of an old architecture. By now even the Xorg developers themselves only do maintenance anymore and don't add new features. There's Xlibre, but well... It's not that you benefit immediately from it as a user. It's plumbing. But everyone is moving away from X11. Asahi Linux for example doesn't even bother supporting it on ARM Macs. They tried, saw it was too hacky and moved on to exclusive Wayland support.

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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange 2026-08-02 10:23

@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange @tom_verbeure@mastodon.social why would we want new features in a display server? I want it to work just like it did 20 years ago, and still work in another 20. FWIW, I'm with the KiCAD folks here. Wayland does things differently from every other display interface on every other platform, e.g. not having a proper absolute coordinate system, which to me makes it not a serious platform to target. I don't have the resources to chase these issues in ngscopeclient. I'm probably going to keep running XFCE and X11 until Debian oldstable drops support for it, and hopefully things will have improved in Wayland / GUI toolkit land by that point and everything will Just Work(tm).

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