Glad to see this and other efforts to keep X server going. I don't have strong feelings on the Wayland vs X debate, but the window managers I use don't support Wayland, so I'd like to be able to keep using them
As stated on the project page, by design, this is not meant to be a full-featured X11 server.
As such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a project that is a fork of X11 called XLibre.
It is, by design, meant to be a drop in replacement that will perpetuate X11 as Wayland starts to become the default.
The current release of Ubuntu 26.04 is the last version that will use X11. The next major release will use wayland.
Personally, I think it's a mistake to just write of X11 in favor of Wayland because they are not compatible in fundamental way, so I'm always glad to see projects like this and XLibre.
It’s astonishing because we see it. We don’t see the real time wasted in duplicating features in proprietary software because the information is not public. We are now in a very consolidated market, but just imagine how many companies competed for Microsoft Word’s business making word processors from scratch.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 27.5 ms ] threadAs such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a project that is a fork of X11 called XLibre.
It is, by design, meant to be a drop in replacement that will perpetuate X11 as Wayland starts to become the default.
The current release of Ubuntu 26.04 is the last version that will use X11. The next major release will use wayland.
Personally, I think it's a mistake to just write of X11 in favor of Wayland because they are not compatible in fundamental way, so I'm always glad to see projects like this and XLibre.
I do understand that's the advantage of open source. But I still think this is a waste of time.