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  • Second System Syndrome otherwise know as ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’.

    X11 is old, extraordinarily old for software. As such, the problems it solves are not really problems anymore.

    Rather than gradually evolving X11, into say X12, the whole thing got dumped on the trash pile and a brand new entirely incompatible thing called Wayland was started from scratch.

    Replacing software with literally hundreds (if not thousands) of person-years of development devoted to it over its lifetime is hard. Which meant that Wayland had an unfeasibly steep hill to climb, as such it’s early days were tumultuous and it got a bit of a bad rap.

    There is far more (qualitative and quantitative) history than will fit into this margin comment.