<story><title>Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us</title><url>http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SimHacker</author><text>In his &amp;#x27;90 Usenix presentation, Dennis Ritchie reminded the audience that
Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that
X-windows was brain-dead and would soon die. &amp;quot;He was half-right.
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;-- Dennis Ritchie, coinventor of UNIX, from an article in UNIX Today&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/133229_in-his-90-usenix-presentation-dennis-ritchie-reminded-the-audience-that-steve-jobs-stood-at-the-same-podium-a-few-years-back-and-announced-that-x-windows-was-brain-dead-and-would-soon-die.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anvari.org&amp;#x2F;fortune&amp;#x2F;Miscellaneous_Collections&amp;#x2F;1332...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us</title><url>http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t really gone through X11 before, but the API really is terrible. How have we managed to hang onto this monstrosity for so long? I get people have a fondness for something that has held up for so long, but the huge complexity and difficulty of hardware acceleration means it&amp;#x27;s time to throw it out.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/x-basics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;magcius.github.io&amp;#x2F;xplain&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;x-basics.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Head over there and drag the kitten around to see why. Now your average Linux desktop builds a lot on X11 to get it to perform how it does now, but all this effort is a huge waste. Just compare it to something like Apple&amp;#x27;s UIKit or Android&amp;#x27;s layouts - it&amp;#x27;s well past the sell by date.</text></comment>