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@dink A fundamental property of X was that it was a networked protocol, it allowed you to display an application running on one machine, on another. The kernel X-server has in no way been inadequate in terms of performance. So that is what I continue to use. Wayland might someday make Linux a viable game platform helping it replace Windows, and in that sense I applaud it, and perhaps Wayland on Wires will eventually make it a viable network protocol but it's not there yet.