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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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commoner ◴[] No.35928948[source]
Asahi Linux is a new Linux distribution in alpha that only supports Apple hardware. All of the distro's supported laptop models have HiDPI screens, and in my experience, Wayland has done a much better job of handling HiDPI screen scaling than X11 ever since it was supported as a full session in GNOME 3.20 (May 2016).

For every FOSS project, it is up to the maintainers to decide the scope of what the project supports. Asahi Linux maintainers have every right to drop support for X11 when it increases the development burden and, according to the post, has lower performance than Wayland on the supported hardware.

Anyone who absolutely needs to stay on X11 due to a use case not yet available on Wayland-compatible software, your options are to switch to a different distro, fork Asahi Linux, or wait for that use case to be supported on Wayland-compatible software.

Based on the decisions mainstream Linux distros and desktop environments have been making, it's clear that Wayland adoption is increasing while X11 is gradually being deprecated. By the time Asahi Linux hits stable, supporting only Wayland will become an even more obvious choice than it is today. The words "don't come to us asking for help" may sound harsh, but they clearly communicate that X11 will no longer be supported on Asahi Linux.

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1. mort96 ◴[] No.35936279[source]
This isn't about Asahi though. Nobody maintains Xorg anymore. Everyone who actually writes code or works on standards in the Linux graphics space, works on Wayland. Xorg on Ubuntu isn't any more maintained than Xorg on Asahi.

Asahi just happens to focus on hardware where Xorg's flaws are more obvious, so X will be more broken than usual. But it reflects the future of Linux graphics.