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   Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:39:11 JST Alan Coopersmith

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   • Adil Arif

   @adilarif I believe Wayland is better designed for the requirements of the 21st century, instead of the 1980's era requirements X11 tried to meet, but since I primarily work on an OS that can only run X11 and not Wayland, I've never dug too deeply into it. (Which is why I also still do a lot of maintenance work on X11 stuff, since that's what we use and ship at work.)

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     Adil Arif (adilarif@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:39:19 JST Adil Arif

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     @alanc With your deep experience in X11, how do you feel about Wayland?

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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:39:20 JST Alan Coopersmith

     26 years ago today was my first day as a student intern in the Sun Desktop Software Release Engineering team (then called "Power Client Software" to distinguish it from the Thin Client orgs handling Java Stations and Sun Rays).

     I became a full-time employee 6 months later, after graduating at the end of summer semester.

     6 months after that, aka 25 years ago now, I moved from the release engineering team into the X11 development team.