I am not too sure that X.org has out lived it's usefulness, there is must to be had with using it as a frame works. But there are some issues with that.
The biggest one, X.org is VERY monolithic by design. It rather difficult to make changes to a system that is so interlocked within itself, and any pain that I have seen with other maintaining X.org clearly state this.
That said, it's slowly being changed... X.org is being leveraged more as a graphic interconnect with each release, and with each release that I have seen more and more of the volatile pieces (the drivers, the compositor, etc.) being more outside of the X.org code (which it REALLY shouldn't happen), some of the integration is being picked appart where it's not needed.
The problem is that this is happening rather slowly, which is understand about since a destructive re-code and re-build of the X.org would be disastrous. I can see where some people look at this and get antsy about it... which is why it's nice that Wayland is around, but to be honest it's a X.org approach that is small enough to consider other devices. But, considering that no alternative is out that is stable... I can't say that I am wanting any disto moving to it since stability would be a great worry.
That is my two cent on the matter.
The biggest one, X.org is VERY monolithic by design. It rather difficult to make changes to a system that is so interlocked within itself, and any pain that I have seen with other maintaining X.org clearly state this.
That said, it's slowly being changed... X.org is being leveraged more as a graphic interconnect with each release, and with each release that I have seen more and more of the volatile pieces (the drivers, the compositor, etc.) being more outside of the X.org code (which it REALLY shouldn't happen), some of the integration is being picked appart where it's not needed.
The problem is that this is happening rather slowly, which is understand about since a destructive re-code and re-build of the X.org would be disastrous. I can see where some people look at this and get antsy about it... which is why it's nice that Wayland is around, but to be honest it's a X.org approach that is small enough to consider other devices. But, considering that no alternative is out that is stable... I can't say that I am wanting any disto moving to it since stability would be a great worry.
That is my two cent on the matter.
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