Re: X Window System boot stipple

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

Title: Iconography of the X Window System: the boot stipple
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:22:49 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140211/iconography-of-the-x-window-system-the-boot-stipple/
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implementation, I can sympathize sight unseen with the sentiments that some
developers have toward the X Window System: the code is a dead end.
(...)
I’ll keep using X, and I will be really sad when it’s no longer
possible for me to do so for one reason or another

OSnews and other media are publishing these articles to push the idea
that X11 is going to fade as a memory.  OSnews published another article
recently about twm. And in my YouTube feed I'm also getting recommendations
with videos about the history of X11 (from the channel RetroBytes).

It's quite subtle, but this is a marketing campaign to promote Wayland and to
stop devs from writing applications for X11 (which is the most stable
and portable API).

In any case, reading about the history of X11 is an interesting topic.