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minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoI got news for you: X11 has seen many extensions, competing standards, fragmented implementations, ambiguous “best choices” for users, etc. MacOS and Windows have seen many API changes, deprecations, even wholesale language and architecture swaps. X11 is a 40 year old architecture that is far from optimal. The people doing the work set the standard in the Free Software world. They stopped working on XFree86. Part of the friction getting linux on the desktop is due to X11. You can still run twm and X. No one is stopping you.
I got news for you:
X11 has seen many extensions, competing standards, fragmented implementations, ambiguous “best choices” for users, etc.
MacOS and Windows have seen many API changes, deprecations, even wholesale language and architecture swaps.
X11 is a 40 year old architecture that is far from optimal.
The people doing the work set the standard in the Free Software world. They stopped working on XFree86.
Part of the friction getting linux on the desktop is due to X11.
You can still run twm and X. No one is stopping you.