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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by formerly_proven on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:46PM (#24201737)
> I spent a long time working on things like Wayland and next-generation graphics technology

I don't know you, so this might come off as overly aggressive. But very little that happens in the FOSS/Linux space and has to do with graphics I would describe with "next gen". Wayland for example is meant as the "ring to rule them all" as a way to drive displays, yet it doesn't even support color management, so it's increasingly useless in a world of non-sRGB displays. X11 does color management (in a cludgy way), for example.

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by Jasper_ on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:53PM (#24201855)
Linux graphics is mostly driven by volunteer work. There is ongoing work to try and get color management done properly (though color management is an extraordinary difficult topic and you could make the argument no display system gets it correct)

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-No...

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