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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.

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.