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Clearing Up Wayland FUD, Misconceptions

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-there's-a-will,-there's-a-wayland dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In clearing up common misconceptions about Wayland (e.g. it breaking compatibility with the Linux desktop and it not supporting remote desktops like X), Eric Griffith (a Linux developer) and Daniel Stone (a veteran X.Org developer) have written The Wayland Situation in which they clearly explain the facts about the shortcomings of X, the corrections made by Wayland, and the advantages to this alternative to Canonical's in-development Mir."

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  1. The Manchurian Candidate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why not fix X?