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Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre


Article introducing Xlibre xserver, a fork of the Xorg project created due to severe functional problems with the Wayland display protocol, including reasoning behind the fork, numerous unresolved issues and missing use cases in Wayland, forced adoption of Wayland and arbitrary deprecation of actively developed X11 technology, implications for the end user, future direction, and more

It requires more mouse clicks to get to the right place, you get less information due to "visual minimalism" AKA "touch nonsense", it's ergonomically inferior (color, contrast, window borders, scrollbars), it responds more slowly - the UI latency. With planned forced obsolescence of X11 components from future Gnome and Fedora editions (and, now it seems, Ubuntu, as well), the user is left with no choice. All I'm interested is high-quality software solutions that focus on providing superior functionality to the end user, without regressions, without taking away critical tools.

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