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The real story behind Wayland and X

Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia4 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2018–2024
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X.Org developer Daniel Stone explains the history and technical limits of the X Window System and why Wayland was created, debunking myths from forum comments. He covers topics such as network transparency and blocking calls.

HN uses it as the go-to answer to claims that Wayland is unnecessary, from a developer who knew X's codebase well.

12 comments from Hacker News

@sergeykish2020-10 · in “The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?”

This criticism looks like "free as beer and I know better". 1. The old, mostly working thing waits your commit 2. That new thing can have some help too I recommend developers story about this "mostly working thing" (2014) [1]. It is quite fun and eye opening, he clearly knows his subject better than most of the comments. Wayland demo worked almost from day one. I've run it in 2010 [2]. But we need applications, that is migrating toolkits and this took 10 years. It is very toxic development culture, cancel culture, mob. [1] ▶ this video [2] link

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@SXX2020-08 · in “Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)”

Really recommend that speech as well since it's give good understanding what's wrong with X11 and why Wayland was created. The real story behind Wayland and X: ▶ this video

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@vetinari2023-02 · in “X12”

> I've seen commentary from people who have worked intimately on both protocols and implementations of both who consider Wayland to have the better architecture. For those interested in details: ▶ this video

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@kaba02021-04 · in “HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged”

Well, you can imagine some evil behind everything if you wish.. Or just look at a technical video about it: ▶ this video I don’t see these conteos regarding linux, especially goddamn desktop with the minuscule user share. It is literally a hobby thing for some graphics enthusiasts without any sort of money. Yeah sure, red hat or whatever..

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@sergeykish2020-10 · in “The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?”

It would be nice to reproduce phoronix results. Do they run in GNOME shell? What if I run in Sway? What exactly they expect of Selenium? I've heard gedit startup example. Sorry, I can't continue until you've watched presentation [1] > gedit startup: > 130 blocking InternAtom calls > 34 blocking GetProperty calls > 116 property change requests > blocking because Xlib is terrible > usually spends 25ms waiting for requests > sometimes spends 1428ms [1] ▶ this video

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