Subj : Re: x11 vs wayland
To   : All
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 08:51:25

On 22/10/2025 22:05, druck wrote:
> On 22/10/2025 14:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> There is a general rule that after a time, any chunk of software is so 
>> full of bodges and patches and hacked on bug fixes and cruft that is 
>> worth rewriting from the ground up.
> 
> It's a great way of creating a whole new set of bodges and bugs, by 
> throwing away all the years of knowledge and bug fixes.
> 
Yes, but usually from a better starting point

> The Wayland crew decided to avoid some of this by simply not 
> implementing great chunks of functionality and refusing to ever get to 
> feature parity with X11.
> 
Indeed. My one experience of trying to run X over a network revealed 
dire performance and flaky behaviour.

Like, who needs it?

> ---druck

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