Question about the future of Xorg

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> At Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:13:09 -0600 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:

> > You can list a million reasons why Wayland is superior, but people
> > still use Xorg, and my bet is that's going to continue to be the case
> > for at least a decade, and possibly much more.
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> The key part of what Lyude Paul wrote is "But it's also designed for an era of
> computing that is much different than how most modern desktops work...". There
> are some of "us" who have no use for "modern" desktop environments. Maybe we
> actually prefer "old fashioned" desktop environments. So, we will continue to
> use Xorg (X11).

Of course, but the issue is who is "us". Clearly there's many _users_
that will stick with Xorg, but some _developers_ need to ensure that
it keeps working. Who is going to do that in the years to come?

That's what I'm trying to find out.

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Felipe Contreras