I saw an interesting article on distrowatch.com today.
I was of course, familiar with the old legacy X11. But someone trying to resurrect it? Not exactly...
it is a new version, (from scratch, not a fork) by a smaller team. So then, it seems it isn't really X11.
So I guess the question for me is... If I have to start over, why not use Wayland (already pretty established)
instead of a another (different) Xserver? My guess this will have all the growing pains that Wayland has
10 years ago. But I do wish them the best, it's always good to have alternatives.
There was a time when some apps only ran on X11. But the tide has turned, and now it's the reverse.
Some (newer) apps run under Wayland that don't run under X11. Supposedly Phenix will have wrappers
(kind of like Wayback) but this remains to be seen.
There are a few of us weirdos who like to compile custom stuff into our systems and play with it, but I suspect
for the vast majority of Linux users, they will just use whatever their distro vendor gives you by default.
I was of course, familiar with the old legacy X11. But someone trying to resurrect it? Not exactly...
it is a new version, (from scratch, not a fork) by a smaller team. So then, it seems it isn't really X11.
So I guess the question for me is... If I have to start over, why not use Wayland (already pretty established)
instead of a another (different) Xserver? My guess this will have all the growing pains that Wayland has
10 years ago. But I do wish them the best, it's always good to have alternatives.
There was a time when some apps only ran on X11. But the tide has turned, and now it's the reverse.
Some (newer) apps run under Wayland that don't run under X11. Supposedly Phenix will have wrappers
(kind of like Wayback) but this remains to be seen.
There are a few of us weirdos who like to compile custom stuff into our systems and play with it, but I suspect
for the vast majority of Linux users, they will just use whatever their distro vendor gives you by default.
