Comment by bee_rider
Comment by bee_rider 5 days 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).
Comment by bee_rider 5 days 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).
Hmm? Seems to be getting plenty of development.
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?
the kind that introduces regressions?
there is a reason lead developer of X11Libre left Xorg project, they did not like broken code: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1760 (and many more if you search)
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…
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.