Wayland was designed by people who didn't like the features of X that almost nobody used (X forwarding, for example). And X is still around for those obscure use cases, while Wayland can serve almost everyone with a much simpler and cleaner system.
Now, why Canonical decided to go off and write Mir instead of collaborating on Wayland development, I have no idea.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by core-questions on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:46PM
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> the features of X that almost nobody used (X forwarding, for example).
Plenty of people use this all the time. It's probably the single best thing about X.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by andrewaylett on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:05PM
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> people who didn't like the few good things about X
Since these were also pretty much the only people who were putting effort into maintaining X, I think it's reasonable that they decided to replace it instead.
The history of X is a history of forks. But we've not seen another X fork appear to compete against Wayland. Instead we see the people who are writing Wayland continuing to retrofit the new technologies they're able to bring back, back to X.
> Zoom needs people who know how to make modern client software
It's the best video client available on Windows / Mac and works acceptably on Linux, what exactly needs to be more "modern" about it? Slack's video call thing is way less featureful, and Teams is still the abortion that is Lync / Skype for Business under the hood which is and always will be shit-tier.
> chat
I don't want my video app to be my chat app. There's any number of reasons why separation there is a good thing. I can start a Zoom call from Slack in 1 second, what more do I really need on that front?