[GoLUG] LOL, people wonder why I don't like the Gnome project

[Alex Finkel]


The X Window System is without a doubt an amazing display system and has been critically important to UNIX/Linux on the desktop.  It has served the community well for 40 years. Quite the achievement. But it’s age is a factor as it was designed for a time when the technology and security considerations were a bit different than today.  How often do folks nowadays need to run graphical applications running on distant systems vs directly on the local system?  Those capabilities that are not as useful to okay as they once were hamper the performance and security stance of systems running X11.  

At this point the biggest problem with X11 is lack of maintenance.  There isn’t much active development as more focus turns to Wayland and there are not many developers stepping up to take on the maintainership of the project.   

Wayland is the future and with XWayland, X11 apps run pretty much seamlessly on top of Wayland, aside from some limitations with cut-and-paste.    

Just my $0.02. 

Alex

> On Sep 9, 2023, at 6:47 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hmmmmm - - - - curious as to why 'they will need to make the switch'?
> 
> TIA
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