On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM Lyude Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> X wasn't "badly designed" per-say, for what it was I'll absolutely say it was > a wonderful piece of software and it did its job well. But it's also designed > for an era of computing that is much different than how most modern desktops > work, so for a lot of the functionality we wanted to see in Wayland the only > way to have implemented it in X would have required breaking people's setups. > So, technically speaking splitting the development off was kind of a given in > some sense anyway. Even if we didn't move work to Wayland it's more likely > work would have been on an X server that didn't really resemble X11 and > wasn't 1:1 compatible. You can list a million reasons why Wayland is superior, but people still use Xorg, and my bet is that's going to continue to be the case for at least a decade, and possibly much more. So if there are some users that will keep using Xorg, I would expect there to be some developers that will keep developing Xorg. But for some reason no one other than Enrico Weigelt has raised their hand and publicly stated so. -- Felipe Contreras
