Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

X11 has issues, but it works, and has powered Unix GUI's for decades.
 
I find it useful, and if it is inefficient, it hasn't been that much of
an issue.

It's efficient enough to run fine on the Pentium 1 PC I'm posting
from now.

Likewise, I'll be happy to go to Wayland, when doing so is almost
seamless.
 
As of now, I think I could use it, but all the DE's/window Managers that
I would want to use are X11.

Almost all the graphical programs I use regularly don't support
Wayland because they either use an old graphics toolkit that
doesn't support it (GTK2, Motif) or don't use a graphics toolkit
at all and link directly to xlib. So even if I saw a reason to
switch, I'd have to change most of the software I use (likely to
slower alternatives) or I'd be running everything in XWayland
anyway.

Luckily I don't do graphics intensive stuff so if people stop
writing GPU drivers for X it won't affect me, and I can do the
work of building it myself (with patches if required) if distros
stop packaging it.

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