▲ 239 ▼ GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5 (www.phoronix.com) submitted 2 years ago by _carmin@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Aight, then why hyping forcefully deprecating fully working code base that provided more accessibility and robustness (x11) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago Because under the hood x11 code is such a hacky mess the developers found it easier to start from scratch than add new features like HDR and VRR to x11. If new features don't matter to you, there's still plenty of distros and DE's and WM's that ship x11 and will continue for a very long time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago Because under the hood x11 code is such a hacky mess the developers found it easier to start from scratch than add new features like HDR and VRR to x11. If new features don't matter to you, there's still plenty of distros and DE's and WM's that ship x11 and will continue for a very long time. permalink fedilink source parent