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Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress
Date: 9 May 2026 16:24:05 GMT
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On Sat, 9 May 2026 14:01:30 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> Well the question is, what does Wayland give me, that X11 does not?  I
> don't mean "clean code" or "less jank" or other stuff that matters not
> one jot to me as a user.  What do I, as a USER, get to be able to do
> with Wayland that I can't do now?

To invert the question if the boxes with Wayland work exactly the same as 
those with X11, why do I give a damn which is used? You can expand that to 
the systemd versus sysv init. Were I still developing Motif apps I might 
care but the ones I worked on were 30 year old legacy code.