Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Aug 2009 17:55 UTC
Over the past couple of months, and especially over the past couple of weeks, I've been working very hard to write and complete my thesis. I performed all the work on Windows 7, but now that the thesis is finally done, submitted, and accepted, I installed Ubuntu - and immediately I was reminded of why I do not do any serious work on Linux: the train wreck that is X.org.
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Its pretty incredible to me that in the OSS world, where theres supposedly so much focus on choice, that there isn't an alternative to X.org anywhere. The last one i remember seeing - Fresco? just died out of lack of interest.
why do you need alternative? to split community?
I guess the reality is that we, as a community, are basically incapable of creating or innovating anything. We rely on proprietary companies and copy their work, while decrying them. The users just complain and don't care enough to contribute.
so... one project has no alternative and this is the end of the world?
We can't even design and implement a functional windowing system, despite having total source-level access to the kernels and the gui toolkits that are used in 99% of apps for our platforms.
Windowing systems? There is whole lot of them. XOrg is graphics system, not window manager
We have unprecedented freedom to change things, and yet we are totally unable to.
Obviously you have way too much freedom to spew bull.