Wow, I’m weirdly close to the same age as the X Windows System

  • Lvxferre
    2·
    2 years ago

    X is an awful pile of garbage, but less awful than the alternatives out there.

    I’m looking at you, Wayland. Reach feature parity (at least for stuff that users care about), then we talk.

    • jokeyrhymeOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s at feature-parity for me, personally

      I’ve been using it for at least 2 years (via GNOME, then sway, now river), and it’s pretty rare now that I hit a rough patch or a paper cut

      Even Zoom seems like it’s finally doing screen-capture via proper xdg-desktop-portal requests now, which is nice

  • ugabbelB
    2·
    3 years ago

    And still buggy with an external monitor…

    • jokeyrhymeOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I’ve been using Wayland for years now and haven’t looked back

      • incici
        2·
        3 years ago

        Still doesn’t support XFCE.

        But I do use gamescope, which runs a Wayland compositor inside X.

    • TheKernalBlog
      4·
      3 years ago

      It’s not a bad thing to be old. It’s tested, and works well. Is it the most effective? No. But that doesn’t mean that it still isn’t a fantastic windowing system.

      In fact, while the original X was created 38 years ago, X.org, the most commonly used windowing system on modern desktop Linux, was released 18 years ago.

      • geoma
        3·
        3 years ago

        Emacs is a nice example of old but gold