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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by the_why_of_y on Saturday April 10, 2021 @05:20AM (#26760155)
The problem with X11 was never that you can't add things to it, the problem is that you can't remove things from it.
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by destructionator on Saturday April 10, 2021 @08:42AM (#26761057)
First, this isn't true - watch the youtube the other person in this thread put where he tells a story about how they deleting about 1/3 of the code (15:19), but secondly even if they didn't, why is that a problem?

Breaking user's applications isn't actually a virtue.

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