23 Jun
2013
23 Jun
'13
6:07 a.m.
On 22 June 2013 04:04, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 21/06/13 9:59 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
It works quite well for me. I merely report what others are saying.
On 21 June 2013 05:09, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
I haven't suffered by this inefficiency myself, but I'll take your word for
it.
On 20/06/13 10:22 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
/Modern/ X.11 as used on modern Linux? Yes. It's indirectly-composited
via OpenGL and a plethora of layers. ...
Absolutely. But trying to be all things to all men leads to bloat.
You're not seriously trying to tell us that X11 - which was designed to
run,
and ran, on machines older than some people subscribed to this list - is
"bloated"? (Say, don't you spend more time using Windows than
Linux?)
Me? Good gracious, no. My main PC doesn't even have a working copy of
Windows on it and neither did the previous one. My notebooks do,
mainly for BIOS flashing but occasionally for reproducing clients'
issues.
These days, I pretty much only use Windows if someone is paying me to.
So basically they've decided to do what NEXTSTEP (1989) and OS X (GPU
acceleration since 10.2: 2001) did.
A fair summary, yes.
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