alt Hacker News> "most of the reasons given in 2011 were patched in to X11 later"
This definitely doesn't match my memory, and I was there :) Most of the good reasons remain unavailable in X11 to this day.
There definitely were some attempts to advance X11 that post-date Wayland, most notably the proposals by Keith Packard, but they never got much traction.
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PunchyHamster • today at 6:53 AM
At around that time X.org worked entirely fine for me, sans some NVIDIA driver config I had to set up in /etc
few years after even that wasn't required.
Yeah it missed some features I could theoretically use in 2025 but I didn't had different DPI/refresh rate displays back then and those could probably be put into X11 protocol just fine
> This definitely doesn't match my memory, and I was there :) Most of the good reasons remain unavailable in X11 to this day.
You two here don't mention any of the reasons. It is hard to discuss this when there are no specifics, so what was needed, and what was not added?