• kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    X code is convoluted, so much so that the maintainers didn’t want to continue. AFAIK, no commercial entity has put any significant money behind Xorg and friends. Potentially unmaintained code with known bugs, unknown CVEs and demands for permission system for privacy made continuing with Xorg a near impossibility.

    If you don’t want new features and don’t care about CVEs that will be discovered in future as well as the bugs (present and future), then you can continue using Xorg, and ignore all this. If not, then you need to find an alternative, which doesn’t need to be Wayland

    Oh, and you might need to manage Xorg while other people and software including your distro move onto something else.

    So yeah, “xorg bad” is literally the short summary for creating Mir and Wayland

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      I get it.
      But as far as I can tell, there are just two xorgs now, one of them is just spelled “Wayland”.