Still remember the days where one had to compile the kernel to enable sound in doom. The fact that most hardware is supported today is a blessing.
And agree with the author. X11 has aging issues.
And agree with the author. X11 has aging issues.
The whole framebuffer handle management of Wayland is a huge step in the right direction, but I despise Wayland's input and inter client communications model; not to say that X11 was anyway better, but whenever I code against Wayland, that part feels just wrong. Also the obsession of the Wayland devs of getting VSync right has its own share of issues (especially for low latency graphics, like you need it for VR).