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Re:Wayland on OpenBSD by pengaru on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:35PM (#36660991)
It didn't work poorly back when X clients were actually using Xlib for drawing primitives performed by the display server.

It started working poorly when X clients started rendering everything locally in the client and simply pushing pixels to the display server.

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Re:Wayland on OpenBSD by bitwize on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:43PM (#36661433)
> It started working poorly when X clients started rendering everything locally in the client and simply pushing pixels to the display server.

Which means it works poorly for modern apps. Modern apps use the GPU for client-side rendering.

And it absolutely worked poorly even in the 90s. It was virtually impossible to run X apps over anything but a fast local LAN. That's what "Broadway"/LBX was about. It was kind of a failure.

RDP has been a better networked display protocol than X for a couple decades now. Let's not fool ourselves that X isn't obsolete on every axis.

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Re:Wayland on OpenBSD by pengaru on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:07AM (#36662349)
> Let's not fool ourselves that X isn't obsolete on every axis.

I'm not sure who you're replying to here, because it certainly isn't me.

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