• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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      It was first and became heavily used. The project itself is very old and embedded deeply into the ecosystem. Its more of a “there wasnt anything better”, wayland being built as its successor with a more specific goal

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      Originally written to render the GUI on another machine across a network to where the program is running a bit like RDP, it got bastardised into displaying GUIs on the same machine the app is running on and never lost the fat

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      A lot of the problems we have now with XOrg simply didn’t exist when it was first written. It’s an incredibly old protocol and that shows in places where technology and/or common use cases have evolved in directions that expose these previously unknown weaknesses.

      No support for variable refresh rate for example isn’t a problem when games don’t even hit 60 fps and the most common use case was spreadsheets.

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      Excreting waste is a byproduct of many necessary functions, biological and otherwise.

      It exists and some poor souls go for a swim in it.