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		gh02t 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emacs is my new window manager (2015) The drama was mostly over whether or not Wayland should have been the replacement. AFAIU, everyone agreed X11 development was effectively unsustainable or at least at a dead end.

silon42 7 days ago [–]

Wayland is not a solution, just a name for some protocols... It's either KDE or Gnome (with it's weird quirks) or some alternative.

gh02t 6 days ago | [–]

So is X11, though the reference implementation of X11 is also widely agreed to have some serious problems going forward on top of problems with the protocol itself.

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