I agree xorg isn’t going anywhere anytime soon but the ground work should laid in case Wayland becomes inevitable, like various toolkits dropping xorg support.
On Sunday, June 15, 2025, Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote: > 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. >
