[binarycrusader]

The vast majority of successful software is arguably based on antiquated principles.

People seem to continually blame X11 as the source of all of Linux's woes, completely ignoring the history of computing.

Most high-end workstations were UNIX-based at one time, and the graphical interface ran on X11. People forget that Photoshop, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Acrobat Reader used to be produced for UNIX and UNIX-like systems.

X11 is not the primary issue at hand with Linux; nVidia has proven that repeatedly.

At most, I'd be willing to agree that X11 is not optimally architected for local rendering context, but again, I don't think that's going to make the huge difference that people seem to imply.