Comment by arghwhat

> I feel we lost a lot of this simplicity over the years, but it's "still there" if you don't care about optimal performance.

You lost some simplicity in going "straight to the metal", but at the same time it never really went straight to the metal because things have not actually worked that way for ages, nor do anyone really want to deal with exclusive access.

On the other hand, you can make a window with a shm buffer on your display server, giving you the same drawing simplicity of the old interfaces but without having to deal with fbdev, evdev, exclusive access, etc. - with that in mind, I do not think anything educational was lost.

No harm in playing around though.