Comment by marcodiego

Once Xorg became stable enough on Linux, it has served me well for many years. Most old complaints have been addressed a decade ago; it's got shared memory, accelerated 3d, fast paths for codecs... there's nothing to complain with regards to performance.

In terms of feature, using it through SSH always impressed me and allowed some quick tricks that would be much more complicated otherwise. It also allowed advanced usages like in Compiz, which I personally got involved and used to impress my friends who did not use Linux.

The remaining problems were more complicated to fix. Old code base, old unused extensions, lack of isolation and sandboxing, different DPI and refresh rates on devices, no guarantees of when something was drawn and single thread architecture that introduces unneeded latency. That's why we got Wayland.

I'm nostalgic to see Xorg go, but I'm happy to know it will be replaced by something better.