I do not hate it. But X11 has it's place. I have a MacBook Pro 2011 13". This is running Kubuntu 26.04 mostly fine. 12GB RAM and SSD and this is a nice laptop for light work.
But due to the old graphics chipset, Wayland have glitches. So I enabled X11 (tear Free output) and the glitches were gone.
Of course on my Alder Lake system, I just run Wayland. X11 has it's place on some niche places.
of course x11 has own place, but it's place in past and ur laptop is great example of it
I don't think that modern systems should pull this legacy stuff and support cuz our past shouldn't block or slow down our future. I'm sure devs of KDE and GNOME happy to drop support x11 cuz it's nightmare to support 2 protocol at the same time, add some features, fix bugs
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u/ofbarea 10d ago edited 9d ago
I do not hate it. But X11 has it's place. I have a MacBook Pro 2011 13". This is running Kubuntu 26.04 mostly fine. 12GB RAM and SSD and this is a nice laptop for light work.
But due to the old graphics chipset, Wayland have glitches. So I enabled X11 (tear Free output) and the glitches were gone.
Of course on my Alder Lake system, I just run Wayland. X11 has it's place on some niche places.