On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 22:45 (+0200), Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2026 Mon, 6 Jul 16:03:38 -0300 Jim via tde-users scripsit:
Thanks for passing that on.
One tenuously-related question: how has your experience with Xlibre been so far? The reports I've seen have been very polarized, with some indicating that Xlibre is the only way ahead for X in Linux, and others comparing the prime mover and shaker as the devil's right-hand man and the worst programmer this side of Saturn.
From a users perspective it just works. It brought back the framebuffer driver that was removed upstream (besides republishing the numerouse patches that were removes upstream), so you can get X11 work on small devices like a R36 with mali53 where no drivers exist in offical Xorg.
I don't have such a thing... just some Raspberry Pis and some laptops with AMD cards. But still, that is interesting.
And yes, if you fight for a wayland-only world then you have just seen the devil. I was told that the "market share" beween X11 and wayland is ~ 1:1 whith wayland losing ground.
Wayland losing ground? That is interesting (and pleasing) to hear. I keep hearing that Gnome is (or has) dropped X11 support, and that KDE will soon follow. If both of these go to Wayland-only, then they will take a huge percentage of the user base along, whether those people want to go or not. Reading some web forums I see people talking about Wayland as if X is already completely dead and buried. Maybe that is just wishful fanboi thinking from them.
Jim