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ninth_anttoday at 3:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Even if you dislike Wayland, forwards-going development is clearly centred around it.

Development of X11 has largely ended and the major desktop environments and several mainstream Linux distributions are likewise ending support for it. There is one effort I know of to revive and modernize X11 but it’s both controversial and also highly niche.

You don’t have to like the future for it to be the future.


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michaelmrosetoday at 4:47 PM

Actually multiple including Phoenix a re-implementation, running an x wm under Wayland via Wayback in addition to xlibre