@aral I like your attitude. I haven't got past the approach of, “Please pay my rent and buy me a nice car,” and, no, I haven't managed to secure any funding either. https://rdmp.org/splat if you want to know.
@cstross@lonjil@hko The problem is X was architected around a single standard: VGA graphics provided by the system BIOS. But in this day and age monitors are driven by many different combinations of microprocessor extensions, graphics cards, and operating system facilities, and they are not to a single standard. It is unfortunately necessary to break everything to fix it again, and Wayland is an architecture which can work across the spectrum of modern display devices...
@cstross@lonjil@hko Yeh, sorry, I made a crap post there. Was trying to put across that it was designed to run on a system with *one* graphics sub-system, not several possibly disparate ones, but never mind my parabolicism.
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