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this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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This is 100% true, but the efforts are negligible and not even worth consideration.
^is an exponentiation operator in C and who got kicked off Xorg for being a moron who did functionally nothing of any importance while carelessly breaking things like the ABI. Enormous quantity but zero quality to speak of. It will go nowhere and only has any crumb of relevance because of the maintainer's virtue signaling.As GNOME and KDE drop X11 and DEs like Cinnamon adopt Wayland, more and more actively maintained applications will stop giving a shit about X11. Even if they don't explicitly not support it, none of the developers will be using it, and most of the userbase won't either; thus, applications' support for X11 will just rot away if it isn't outright deprecated. Obviously X11 will always have a base of legacy applications, but you're going to be seriously hard-pressed even two years from now to find someone who would use X11 over Wayland – except for specific and severely outdated hardware, conspiracy nutjobs, and the rare case where XWayland doesn't properly support a legacy application.
Just switched to Xlibre 25.1.1 from using Wayland since 2022.
The performance is a lot better on Xlibre than on Wayland and especially much better than Xorg (which is plagued by mouse lag and tearing)
In my experience it doesn't seem like metux is a bad dev. He has done what the Xorg devs said they couldn't do.