On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 09:36:42AM -0400, Christopher Turkel wrote:
> Maintaining a fork would be a tremendous effort
As somebody who actually uses the networking parts of X11 on a daily basis,
(I.E. programs running on one machine and displaying their graphical output on
an X server running on a completely different machine), I can assure you that
this discussion of X11 disappearing anytime in the foreseeable future is
laughable (*).
Wayland might, (or might not), be a solution to the, 'one user in front of
their own directly connected keyboard and screen', that the industry started
to move towards in the mid 1980s, but there are currently plenty of X11
installations deployed in applications that Wayland will never, (at least in
it's current form), be able to supplant.
It's also worth noting that we've seen large shifts in the X11 userbase
before. Back in the early 2000s a lot of the Linux distros ditched XFree86
due to licensing changes, and went back to the Xorg server which had
previously been ditched in favour of XFree86.
So nothing much to see here.
(*) Besides, if the concept was without merit, then Plan-9 would have failed
as well.
