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|    Mike Easter to wAYNE    |
|    Re: Wayland versus X11?    |
|    14 Sep 22 09:20:20    |
      From: MikeE@ster.invalid              wAYNE wrote:       > what's the difference between X11 and Wayland as I don't see anything       > visually?              My sense of it is...              ... there are a lot of things 'wrong w/' the old X (x11 since 1987),       and, theoretically at least, there should/could be a better way of doing it,              ... *BUT* ...              ... Wayland has been *trying* and trying and trying to get it done since       2008, and considering that it hasn't actually gotten it properly done in       all that time,...              ... there must be 'something wrong' between the theory and the reality.              So, maybe Wayland isn't the 'best' idea after all; but apparently there       isn't an alternative plan in the works. All that seems pretty flakey to me.              --       Mike Easter              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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