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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by melvyn2 on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:27PM (#35868284)
Wayland is a more versatile protocol. OP is misrepresenting a little bit, the base protocol v1 is finalized but desktop use will need and already does use many standard extensions.

Nothing about being assholes, just a bureaucratic design.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by magicalhippo on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:50PM (#35868944)
My understanding is that Wayland is more versatile in the sense of how a LEGO set is more versatile than a molded toy. Yes you can do a lot with LEGO, but a LEGO brick is just a LEGO brick at the end of the day. Similarly, Wayland lets almost all the "interesting" bits be up to the extension protocols[1].

[1]: https://wayland.app/protocols/

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by bzzzt on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:36AM (#35871612)
Just like X11 uses Xexts and/or toolkit libraries for about anything.
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