Re: X is Alive!

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:44:34 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 3/10/2024 3:26 PM, vallor wrote:

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:10:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in
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Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> wrote at 19:22 this Saturday (GMT):

All the fucking worthless doomsayers in the on-line press have a habit
of claiming that X Window is dead.
>
But my Gentoo emerge for this week saw  that following X updates:
>
libXdmcp
libxcb
xlsfonts
xrefresh
libXcursor
xev
xauth
xpr
libXaw3d
x11-apps/editres
xfontsel
xmessage
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Whoa!  That's a lot of fucking updates!
>
X Window is very much alive and kicking.
>
I will soon be exploring Wayland but X Window will be my main GUI
for a LONG time.

>
I prefer X too.

 
Same here, though the games I run use DXVK to talk to the Vulkan
API on NVidia's Linux driver.  (I think X is only minimally-involved
there.)
 
BTW:  It's not "X Window" it's "the X Window System", or just "X".
 
Sometimes, people call it "X Windows", but I've never
seen "X Window" unless discussing an actual window on X.

 
 
Another off-charter post.

Fine:

To put a finer point on it for those with
a Windows burr up their butt, there's a definite
advantage to running DXVK on Linux vs.
DX-whatever-Windows-is-shoveling-at-you.

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-v