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Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distributions supporting XLibre so that you can make an informed choice.

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you can have xorg until 2036 with ubuntu 24.04

And by 2036, Wayland will be deemed "too old" and they will write an incompatible "Wayland 2" which is more restrictive. Mark my words. Just look at Gtk.

No, by that time we'll have DirectFBX which will replace X and Wayland both, incorporate uwuisms, have My Little Pony as a mascot, and run off libbronie exclusively.

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xgui4 commented Jul 29, 2025

you can have xorg until 2036 with ubuntu 24.04

And by 2036, Wayland will be deemed "too old" and they will write an incompatible "Wayland 2" which is more restrictive. Mark my words. Just look at Gtk.

i hope you are wrong , cause wayland is already way tooo much restrictive...

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xgui4 commented Jul 29, 2025

you can have xorg until 2036 with ubuntu 24.04

And by 2036, Wayland will be deemed "too old" and they will write an incompatible "Wayland 2" which is more restrictive. Mark my words. Just look at Gtk.

No, by that time we'll have DirectFBX which will replace X and Wayland both, incorporate uwuisms, have My Little Pony as a mascot, and run off libbronie exclusively.

so a display server made by people with unstable mental health and infected by the woke mind virus ?

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xgui4 commented Jul 29, 2025

if you are right, then xlibre is the only place for mentally stable and unawake people ...

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