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Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 15, 2012 19:14 UTC (Fri) by marm (guest, #53705)
In reply to: Vignatti: X on Wayland by Cyberax
Parent article: Vignatti: X on Wayland

Maybe because those 1% of people are those who bring you your OS kernel, compilers and device drivers? ;-)

Anyway, I don't see the "all policy belongs to the window manager" model in X harming anybody, as opposed to systems which take choices away from the users.

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Posted Jun 15, 2012 22:56 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Not really. Most kernel developers use pretty standard distributions these days.