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by bitwize 1689 days ago
When your solution to "make something secure" is to isolate instances of it in airtight sandboxes, IT IS NOT SECURE.

Theoretically Xorg can be made fully secure: just isolate clients so they can only receive events and bitmap information from windows created on the same client connection. It would be relatively straightforward, if quite involved, to implement.

But nobody wants to implement it because everyone qualified to do so has jumped ship to Wayland. The X architecture is so fatally flawed that the most straightforward way to fix it is to start from scratch, and that's what Wayland is.

X is like global warming: one hundred percent of the people who are in the least wise knowledgeable agree that it is a problem. Unlike global warming, however, that problem has a fix: Wayland.

So just... shut up with the irrelevant bullshit and use Wayland, like all the Linux graphics maintainers and distro maintainers want you to do and have been telling you to do for years now... or find your shit unsupported.

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>So just... shut up with the irrelevant bullshit and use Wayland

There are still, to this day, tons of features which end consumers rely on that are still unsupported out of the box with wayland. If you're writing a replacement for x, it had damned well better have feature parity with x. Saying 'shut up and switch' is not an argument for switching.

Also, this sort of attitude is precisely why linux never took off on the desktop. Such arrogance.

I don't agree with the GP comment's attitude but if you could mention those features then maybe someone can help you, they probably exist in some form.