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Cake day: December 2nd, 2023

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  • I got news for you:

    • X11 has seen many extensions, competing standards, fragmented implementations, ambiguous “best choices” for users, etc.

    • MacOS and Windows have seen many API changes, deprecations, even wholesale language and architecture swaps.

    • X11 is a 40 year old architecture that is far from optimal.

    • The people doing the work set the standard in the Free Software world. They stopped working on XFree86.

    • Part of the friction getting linux on the desktop is due to X11.

    • You can still run twm and X. No one is stopping you.