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by pseudotrash 1003 days ago
Nitpick: there is no "vs." ... because in the long run X11 is dead. After decades of serving us well it's not maintainable and not a good base to build anything on top that you want to continue maintaining in 5 or 7 years. Any warranty of a "cyber physical systems" is better off starting on Wayland IMHO

What issues are you facing with screen recording?

Can't say anything about NVIDIA because I avoid these chipsets like the plague (even for windows)

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X11 will continue to exist and be maintained for decades. I would not even be surprised if it lasts longer than Wayland.
It already appears to be effectively dead. Pretty much all the commits in the repo are wayland related.
I am still using X and it is still working fine for what I need. Why would I need it to continue to be maintained?
> X11 is dead. After decades of serving us well it's not maintainable

Why not ? Is the wayland "maintainable " ?

The X11 maintainers said as much, then created Wayland?
The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
This is just FUD.