It's probably because you are a dumb nigger. You are the blackest retard gorilla nigger the world has ever seen.

Yeah. I've spent a couple hours reading the 29 pages of comments too. Some comments by 'Curago' stood out. Specifically

Using this forum page as an example: http://tinypic.com/r/34ytse9/5 http://tinypic.com/r/avr7nk/5 The background without text compressed to 8.7kb, the background with text compressed to 87kb. The text in this image took 2.3kb uncompressed, 1.2kb compressed with gzip. Sending the plain background + text takes only 11% of the space, resulting in better latency >and so usability.

In almost every case where I personally use X to render remote apps on my local screen this seems to decidedly favor X over Wayland. In my case this would be web browsers, irc clients and eboard or Xboard for chess.

The only X related programming I've done is modifying the BSD version of x2x so that it would have the same -north and -south functionality as the linux version. That was just for my personal use so I could move my mouse pointer to my tv in the relative direction to where my TV is located.

I haven't seen tearing or had to manually configure X in years. But I remember those things. So when the tearing was an issue a few years ago I switched or disabled compositors a couple times, but I didn't blame X rather the BSD graphics drivers which were still catching up, lacking KMS support for my card and so on.

For me Xorg is the golden child. I know there are lots of folks who don't need the remote functionality and maybe Wayland could be better for them in some ways. There's always room in this ecosystem for more stuff. I don't see Wayland replacing X. I kind of hope it never becomes prominent and the capabilities which make X such a convenient way to operate for me become an afterthought because frankly VNC is a load of ass.

Years ago someone (maybe named Kristian) sperged out over the definitions of server and client under the X window system. This sparked a dream to build something simpler and better. During the ages that followed this dream of simplicity morphed into a nightmare of complexity rivaling that of the system that started him down this road; minus the network aware code, because that would be ridiculous. \s

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland_situation&num=1