Xorg

“Because it works. It works well!”

“stuff that got crammed into Xorg at some point whether it made sense or not.”

“deliberately not accepting features or patches to push Wayland, which is kind of frustrating”

“Xorg team had accepted Enrico's patches then did not release them.”

“VRR works fine on xorg and has for quite a long while now”

“easier to maintain xorg, a program i haven't even restarted for years”

“xorg is a dead project that doesn't take any patches from anywhere”

“Xorg does per-monitor DPI and per-monitor refresh rate.”

“this is the pain I still see with Wayland but not really with X”

“I have no issues whatsoever with Xorg.”

“Somewhat surprisingly, it works great.”

“the Xorg maintainers (who are also behind Wayland efforts) are actively trying to kill it”

“It's quite a trip down memory lane, typing 'startx' and having a both a :0.0 and :0.1 displays.”

“I was able to get Xorg to render to a virtual framebuffer and treat the monitors as appropriately scaled windows onto it”

“You need support from third party software such as Xorg or Weston.”

“As I type this comment on Xorg, I assure you it does "actually work"”

“I am using it on all my computers, works fine.”

“a base (like X11) that enables others to do that doesn't go against it from the perspective of the system as a whole.”

“Classic Microsoft gestapo tactics: shoehorn Xorg dependencies into tons of unrelated apps”

“rootless Xorg requires udev, udev turned into a systemd component”

“Xorg.conf has worked out of the box with no or minimal configuration for the past 20 years or so.”

“X11 has its problems, but even if they are fixable, no one seems to want to work on Xorg anymore”

“Did they try anything as petty as the xorg maintainers are nowadays?”

“Getting all of LLVM mesa linux cmake ninja glibc gcc binutils xorg KDE to work is more work than in 2005 or 2010.”

“tons of legacy cruft in there intended for working with hardware that hasn't been in use since circa 1992”

“It used to be that everyone used Xorg, so all desktops had largely the same features.”

“I have ran xfce under xorg for years now on hi-dpi screens”

“I like my xorg, thank you very much”

“I'll stick to xorg and openbox for many years to come.”

“Well if three independent programs have to coordinate to make it work, then I would state that it do not support it at all.”

“Technically Xorg can handle fractional scaling across mixed dpi and refresh rate monitors”

“It's the last thing I miss from Xorg.”

“the developers of Xorg are _intentionally_ going to stop supporting it”

“Back to Xorg and Gnome then, because I need accelerated graphics.”

“Fractional scaling also works fine for decades in Xorg.”

“while Xorg works for a lot of people, it's not the way forward”

“It is a 400K LOC behemoth of a project and it has a ridiculous amount of technical debt.”

“switch back from Wayland to xorg”

“XRandR has either always, or has effectively always provided the information required for GUI toolkits to scale their widgets according to a screen's DPI.”

“the primary reason I still use Xorg”