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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2009-08-20
X.org is more than you think.
First of all, X.org is a server, and it is actually very, very modular. You can have any setup you can imagine, any number of screens, any number of cards, any number of users, multiple servers running on the same machine, a nested X server in a nested X server in a nested X server... and also has extensions which make X.org even more modular. I truly believe that X.org is far superior than anything Windows can offer.
Also, your user experience will not rely only on X.org, but on your window manager (which is a different piece of software), on the extensions you have enabled, on the graphics driver, on the hardware. Some of this configuration is actually done by your distribution (and in that case blame your distro not X.org), and other cases the driver.