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Re:The X Window System just turned 38: Down but not on its W... by timapplesauce on Monday July 04, 2022 @08:56AM (#31976520)
The other fatal flaw of Wayland is that it’s support on anything other than Linux is abysmal. I can run an X server on Linux, BSD, Commercial UNIX variants, Minix, macOS, OpenVMS, and even Windows. Heck at one point there was even an X server for DOS!
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Re:The X Window System just turned 38: Down but not on its W... by GekkePrutser on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:55AM (#31977703)
I'm running FreeBSD myself and there is in fact a working Wayland stack. THe only issue is that the KDE integration is currently broken so I can't use it. But I've been told by people using other DE's and WMs like sway that it works great.

But yes X is a great common denominator. I used it back in the 90s with Xappeal on DOS. Was great at college when we ran out of free X terminals.

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