Comment by bee_rider
4 hours ago
Because X is not getting much development at this point (personally I still use i3, haven’t switched to Sway, the present works fine for me).
4 hours ago
Because X is not getting much development at this point (personally I still use i3, haven’t switched to Sway, the present works fine for me).
This argument is actually backwards: one of the goals of the wayland project is to draw development away from X. If wayland didn't exist, people would have worked on X11 a lot more.
It's not an argument in the first place: it's describing the current situation. Wayland does exist, and did draw development away from X.
Not quite. Wayland was created in part to draw developers away from X. Seeking buy-in from Xorg developers specifically was a big part of it.
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Hmm? Seems to be getting plenty of development.
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/activity
That’s a fork, which is fine. But for example, users from most mainstream distros will have to compile it themselves.
I guess we’ll see if that development is ever applied to the main branch, or if it supplants the main X branch. At the moment, though… if that’s the future of X, then it is fair to be a little bit unsure if it is going to stick, right?
That's X.org, which is controlled by the Free Desktop Foundation.
The OpenBSD people are still working on Xenocara, and it introduces actual security via pledge system calls.
That seems pretty interesting. I guess it relies on BSD plumbing though?
Funny enough, the my first foray into these sort of operating systems was BSD, but it was right when I was getting started. So I don’t really know which of my troubles were caused by BSD being tricky (few probably), and which were caused by my incompetence at the time (most, probably). One of these days I’ll try it again…