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Comment by bitwize | Hacker News Reader

The BSDs need a Wayland story quick because X is going bye-bye. GNOME and then KDE will probably remove their X code paths before the decade is out.

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> X is going bye-bye

This has been the 'Wayland story' for 15 years now.

It's accelerating now becasue finally most decided not to spend time on maintaining X. Everyone who was sleeping on it finally woke up and realized they need to do something or they'll be left with no support. They can either maintain X themselves now or they'll use Wayland.

Nobody maintains X. Volunteers fix it, companies add drivers. Freedesktop is defrauding their donors, by claiming to "maintain and extend X" and failing to do so.

Other people will pick up the slack once the weirdos at Freedesktop formally announce they're finished.

When no one fixes it, "volunteers fix it" doesn't sound like a promising proposition. But sure. I suppose if someone wants to stick with it for reasons, they'll care to fix it.

HAHA, Xorg will always be with us. GNOME and KDE will maybe do something like that, but that's no problem.

X isn't going bye-bye. Heck the current "maintainers," who are trying to kill it, don't even do anything but merge code given to them by other people.

You'll never win. At best you can kill it from Red Shat. I find the snarky, hubristic nature of Wayland boosters to be insufferable. Whole thing's a huge dumpster fire too.

We'll see what happens when the toolkit maintainers decide to remove their X code paths because they're so rarely used and a pain in the ass to maintain.

They don't have the front holes to do it.

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