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Chris Siebenmann, a UNIX herder at the University of Toronto CS Lab, asserts that the death watch for the X Window System (aka X11) has probably started:
I was recently reading Christian F.K. Schaller's On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31 (via both Fedora Planet and Planet Gnome). In it, Schaller says in one section (about Gnome and their move to fully work on Wayland):
Once we are done with this we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.
X11, for all its advantages, also has several incurable design flaws relating to security. However, the major distros have not yet been in any hurry to replace it. Wayland is touted as the next step in graphical interfaces. What are Soylentils thoughts on Wayland or the demise of X11?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @09:08AM
Just to add to my above blather...
The thing here is, 'edge cases' are what makes/made Linux great. Awesome.
It's what made for insane stability, compared to other platforms. It's what makes it so *usable*. Think ; corporate culture has a budget, has limits on should be developed. Obscure features that they don't need? Or, that some middle level manager thinks "Wtf?! Why! Who cares!" about...
Well, imagine trying to explain why you "wasted" 10% of your budget on "stupid shit 4 people use"?
Redhat has had much culture shift over the last 20+ years. And it's grown, massively. If you take away all those edge cases?
You get any other corporate OS. Like Windows.