xorg or xlibre

[rootbert]

What is your opinion, which project will thrive in the future?

 

[fahrenheit]

Probably neither, X11 is "dead" for Linux developers. Xlibre has, currently some devs, but I'm not sure if they are sufficient to ensure a future.
Wayland may or may not be the future, currently it "looks" to be, but sincerely as with all things I expect that something new will come along in the next 5 to 10 years to address the issues that it has (real or not).
X11 should still work by then, the question is if it will do anything useful for current (at the time) tech.

 

[T-Aoki]

As one of the maintainer of NVIDIA GPU driver ports, xorg is preferred.
This is simply because upstream (NVIDIA) doesn't (yet) announced supports for xlibre.

As a person, neutral. But need to see whether or not xlibre provides continuous backward compatibilities. If backward compatibilities are hurted, I would prefer xorg. And at the same time, I know there are some "haters" of xlibre as of their first announcements (said "Non DEI"). So need to see how it goes, too.

And as of the disposal of xim support in basic specification, Wayland SHALL not be an option. Decades of developments for input methods on X11 SHALL not be ignored, and SHALL be completely kept backward compatible. This is enough reason I deny Wayland.

About the future, UEFI should become hypervisor like monitor on mainframes (not sure all mainframes use this term, but a mainframe guy I've met before used this term for environment to manage resources for PPARs/LPARs and installed OS'es) and all devices to be provided as boottime / runtime services. And admin of the computer (for single user computer, the users themselves) should allways and easily be allowed to enter UEFI management screen anytime the computer is up and running.
(I.e., windowing currently running OS and choose UEFI window, or other OS running concurrently.)

In this kind of well-managed environments, X11 would be better fit than Wayland.