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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

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Re: Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

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LeFantome wrote: post #248
imtringued wrote: post #235

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The point of the protocol spec being minimal is that it enables a wide variety of implementations, something it definitely succeeded at. I still don't know how people twist this obvious success into a failure.

Xorg fans reverse all the normal Open Source logic. Imagine we were talking about web browsers… There should only be one! No security makes all my extensions work!

If anything, Wayland is designed for closed appliances. The free software ecosystem does not need to distrust applications.

Re: Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

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yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #394
bashkiddie wrote: post #370

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> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again. totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks! And polkit... su and sudo should have been enough

> And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! That'll happen first, I think. The trick is that pipewire is actually a fully functional replacement, instead of trying to declare everything out of scope, so with only minor effort people can just switch and everything works.

It's still a mess compared to what it should be (and imho compared to plain ALSA, which itself made many wrong choices compared to OSS).
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