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You would "love to see X die" why exactly? You claim it is "very complex" but don't explain in what ways this affects you. How do you know Wayland will be any less complex or smaller?

X was overengineered for a SunOS 4 system with 8 MB of RAM (but it still ran there). But my systems are way larger than that now, and X has stayed roughly the same. Now I've got python crap running consuming more memory than X.



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