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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by bitwize on Friday July 11, 2014 @09:23PM (#8023382)
OS X no longer comes preinstalled with an X server. Most Mac users are capable of getting along perfectly fine without it -- even developers. And anyway, X11 apps in Mac OS X are like weeaboos on the streets of Tokyo: no matter how earnestly they try to assimilate, they stand out like sore, awkward thumbs and obviously don't belong there.

If you want to develop beautiful apps on the Mac platform you use Cocoa -- not X. Apple decided against basing its graphics stack on X11 for sound technical reasons.

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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by mtdewcmu on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:29AM (#8024024)
>> Apple decided against basing its graphics stack on X11 for sound technical reasons.

and even still, X runs on OSX just fine, AFAIK (please correct me if I'm wrong -- anyone). The X server could stand to have been a little more seamlessly-integrated into OSX from a usability standpoint, IME. But from a purely technical perspective it seemed to be fine.

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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by lucian1900 on Sunday July 13, 2014 @09:00AM (#8027251)
And it'll also run on Wayland, in a similar manner. No loss there.
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