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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by Ferret7446 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:21PM (#47450090)
> Who is forced to use it?

The people forcing Wayland are also the people who own and are trying to kill Xorg (stated explicitly) and also trying to cancel people who fork or implement their own X11. So yes, they are actively trying to prevent people from using X11

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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by messe on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:05AM (#47451398)
> also trying to cancel people who fork

Care to elaborate on that accusation? I have a suspicion you're referring to Xlibre.

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