Came across this article:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Process-Start-With-X
This tells you quite a bit about the current state of X.Org on Linux.
I said it before and I'll say it again: I'm sad to see X.Org die. Of
course, this is coming from the very narrow perspective of someone who's
primarily interested in writing a *window manager*. It was a lot of fun
to explore this area of X11 over the years and it gave me a tremendous
amount of flexibility and freedom. Empowerment, even. The desktop
environment is one of the most important components of everyday computer
usage -- when you control this part, you control *a lot* and you can
make your life much, much easier and more comfortable. (Because, you
know, I need to sit in front of this stupid machine all day long,
because that's how I make money.)
I *could* write my own Wayland *compositor*, but that task is several
orders of magnitude harder than writing an X11 WM. I tried (a while
back), based on wlroots, and gave up. I don't have the ressources to do
this.
So, with X.Org dying, what am I going to do?
I already mentioned the idea on 2022-02-11: How about becoming a tmux
poweruser? Most of the things I do happen in terminals. So, instead of
opening multiple terminal emulator windows, I could open just one, run
tmux inside of it and implement all the things like "workspaces" in
tmux.
Should be doable.
Immediately, I'm thinking: "Oh my god, this feels like going back to
Windows 95 with basically no window management whatsoever." It feels
like a dirty workaround, a bad solution. It feels like all the power and
flexibility that running my own WM gave me is being taken away from me;
for no benefit whatsoever. It's change forced upon my from the outside.
Of course, that's just the immediate emotional response. If I actually
gave it a try, maybe it wouldn't be so bad or maybe I could get used to
the quirks of that new system.
I guess this is the most sensible way forward: Slowly migrate over to
tmux-only while X.Org is still alive (so there's no pressure). Once I'm
comfortable with that, switch to Wayland.
And maybe, some day I'll make peace with Wayland and everything will be
fine again.
