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		saturn_vk on Feb 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 proto... I remember in the early 2000s still needing to write to a config file to get X to work on my desktops at the time. Was it 30 years old at that time? I've been running Wayland crash free for a few years already, without the need to touch a single config file. Does that mean it reached better usability at least twice as fast compared to X?

messe on March 1, 2023 [–]

I remember having to tweak Xorg.conf in the late 00s. The X11 xkcd[1] is from 2011.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/963/

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