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jasoneckert ◴[] No.35928101[source]
This makes perfect sense - the Asahi project is about developing a robust Linux distro for Apple Silicon systems and must focus their limited resources on achieving that goal. Spending time to support X.org - which is quickly becoming deprecated for Wayland - isn't a good use of their limited resources.
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gjvc ◴[] No.35928270[source]
which is quickly becoming deprecated for Wayland

On what planet is this true?

update: I sit somewhat corrected. I have retried KDE with an NVidia card and /usr/bin/Xwayland and am impressed. Not 100% perfect, but very usable.

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gjsman-1000 ◴[] No.35928500[source]
This planet. GNOME and KDE have both announced Wayland is default for future releases and they are working towards depreciation.

Red Hat has announced they are depreciating Xorg already; which is a huge deal because they are almost single-handedly the only contributor keeping Xorg alive. Once they are done, work on Xorg will basically cease forever.

Considering Xorg is based on X11 which dates back to June 1984, I can’t blame them. A graphics system from 1984 is not suitable for 2023 in any capacity. Not without a ton of hacks, workarounds, and jank everywhere.

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1. dreamcompiler ◴[] No.35928682[source]
OT friendly reminder:

"depreciation" happens when capital investments lose value over time, often for tax purposes.

"deprecation" is when the builders of a tool want to discourage you from using the tool going forward because a better solution exists.

The latter is the one that applies to software.

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2. gjsman-1000 ◴[] No.35928716[source]
I know, but I work on a smartphone with ambitious autocorrect.