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by chris_wot 4938 days ago
The same reason that Windows 3.1x was used when people could have been using X. Sometimes these things take a while to catch on.
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rymith 4938 days ago
Because X sucked. I hated X Windows, nothing worked right at all back then. Actually, the last time I used it, it still sucked. And how has X caught on?
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webreac 4937 days ago
I am on a dual screen X terminal, logged on a remote linux server (virtual quad core) and using rdesktop to access my desktop PC because I am not in my office. In front of me, all the worktations (38) are running linux. X windows is definitely the tool I use the most.
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chris_wot 4938 days ago
Worked fine for me. X is very popular now. Don't know when you last used it, but "it still sucked" brings nothing to this conversation.
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rymith 4937 days ago
Very popular, to whom? Linux has what, 1% of the desktop market share. Linux is very popular on android, but I was pretty sure that Android didn't use X. That's like saying you were popular in High School because you had two friends. And apparently, from an article on HN, Ubuntu isn't going to be using it any further.
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chris_wot 4936 days ago
Very popular amongst Linux distributions, obviously not including Android. Sorry, is that the deafening silence of a non-answer to my question?
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rymith 4935 days ago
No, I've been compiling a list. It's a big list, so it's taking me a while.
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chris_wot 4934 days ago
Similar in size to the one I'm compiling about Windows 3.11?
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