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Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

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OhMeadhbh · 1790233839 · focus · HN ↗
Hmm... no news on whether there's X11 support or if we're stuck with just wayland.
1. ChocolateGod · 1790234827 · focus · HN ↗
  X11 is ancient history and not a fit for tiling GPUs found in mobiles socs
  1. OhMeadhbh · 1790366339 · focus · HN ↗
    Sure, but all the software I want to run uses X instead of Wayland. And it would be cool if we could get reliable key remapping under systemd and wayland.
2. imtringued · 1790237454 · focus · HN ↗
  Wayland is a protocol that can be implemented by a compositor. Since Wayland intentionally chose to only support a subset of the functionality of a display server like Xorg, it became possible to rip out the Xorg specific hardware drivers and make the X11-supporting Wayland compositor known as XWayland possible in the first place.
  "We're stuck with just a protocol that can have arbitrary implementations including full backwards compatible X11 servers"
  1. OhMeadhbh · 1790366453 · focus · HN ↗
    The words "full backwards compatible" are not entirely true in my experience.

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