this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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Why does anyone care tho?
Because X11 is mostly dead and the guy who's is trying to keep it alive has a questionable understanding of the programming language it is written in, to the point where he got ejected from the original X11 project for constantly and pointlessly breaking stuff. See also https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56
That's truly something lmao
x11 feels like shit compared to wayland