Why does xorg still exist?

I am familiar with the development history of xorg. I am not learned as to the history of failed projects to replace it. What replacements were proposed before Mir and Wayland and why did they fail? They couldn't have been that bad. Wayland is as bad as xorg if not worse by its lack of standard implementation alone and it received financial backing.

Because it's the best

>>2

It sucks.

>>1

What is your problem with xorg?

>>1
Wayland received financial backing because Red Hat is pushing hard to replace the linux graphics stack with something it controls.

>>4
It's so slow Gvim is more responsive on Windows than it is on Linux https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ .

>>5
Could be video driver issues. Windows uses proprietary,optimized code made by manufacturer.

use rio.

Who cares about desktop Linux? no1curr

The only use for Linux is to run on AWS and Azure servers. GUI does not matter.

Desktop OSes will be dead before the “year of the Linux desktop.”

Desktop OSes will be dead before the “year of the Linux desktop.”

This is right and wrong. The OS of the future seems increasingly platform agnostic and so solely desktop OS platforms probably will not increase but many entrants from mobile will in a sense become desktop platforms in the next ten years or so.

>>8
you're probably right.

I think OS X will be the last OS to die off though. eventually only codemonkeys, sysadmins, graphics people, actual engineers, and scientists would need to use desktops (and even then, only as a client shell to distributed Linux/FreeBSD servers). no employer wants to pay someone to dick around fixing all the various hiccups of Linux desktop, and Windows is anachronistic, so everyone will just use OS X (as is already happening).

OS X is the future. everyone still on "GNU/"Linux is just a grandpa wasting his time, waiting to die.

>>9
Platform agnostic? What, are you saying we'll be running Android on computers and Windows on phones? I don't think so.

The only really "platform agnostic" platform is web. But that's not an OS.

>>11

iOS/Fuschia/???
Google could take a huge bite out of windows and that's just an obvious one. Windows phone is NOT happening again. I expect further mobile -> desktop development.

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Waiting for Google Fuschia:
https://i.imgur.com/DNsXXq9.jpg

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the vast majority of people have no use for a desktop. it's overkill. 99% of consumer computing power is spent on browsing facebook/imagereddits and passive media consumption. if a normalfag wants to do something niche, they will just buy a dedicated unitasker machine for it (e.g., game consoles, home theater stick, VR headset, etc.).

the last bastion of desktops are PCs in corporate America cubicles that run some enterprise C#/Java programs. one day some non-boomer CEO will figure out that it's cheaper to buy $30 Android tablets from China, $5 bluetooth keyboards, $1 Excel licenses, hire Pajeet to shit out some Android Java, and an AWS account than to pay for Windows licenses, monitors, PCs, salaries for an IT department specializing in Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and the whole deal. that will be the day that Windows can finally be allowed to die.

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Android in the enterprise. Gross.

>>16
Why do you hate Linux?

>>17
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact GNU/systemd.