Boycott Xorg. It breaks everything!!

Xorg.md

Hello! This is a parody of the infamous "boycott wayland" thread. Meant to be a reference of issues, instead of tracking actual flaws with the wayland ecosystem or pointing out helpful resources or alternatives, the creator mostly cites secondhand anecdotes, personal opinions, and outdated or provably false statements. When commenters tried to point out the outdated information and suggest improvements to the gist, their comments were either deleted, harrassed by the creator of the gist, or edited to include homophobic remarks.

Do not take anything here seriously, I made this mostly as a joke. If you have extra things to add leave them in comments (i won't harass you)

Think twice before using Xorg over Wayland. It breaks everything!!

Xorg breaks Gnome

Gnome will no longer support Xorg going forward because of stability issues inherent to X11

• gnome-session/98 ❌

Xorg breaks M1 Macs

• Asahi Linux cannot support Xorg due to slowness and stability issues inherent to X11

Xorg breaks Waydroid

Tons of popular apps are broken on Xorg, with seemingly no alternatives

• waydroid/waydroid ❌

Xorg breaks scaling

Xorg provides no solution for fractional scaling, leaving window managers to hack around the issue. Wayland provides this by default

Xorg breaks system security

The xorg-xserver codebase is messy, unmaintained, and full of security issues

• Xorg allows any user and window to perform unsafe actions with no way of mitigation ❌
• Xorg has had major unpatched vulnerabilities existing for decades ❌
• Xorg suffers from countless security issues❌

Xorg breaks window managers

Apparently X11 (at least as implemented in Xorg) does not respect wlroots protocols, and breaks other command line tools like swaymsg, hyprctl, wayprop, ydotool, etc

help me add more things to this list!

Xorg breaks M1 macs https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110354541574112092

This is a joke right?
Like xorg is just moving out and becoming obsolete, so why are we rushing it? It is going to die off eventually.
And in dying or dead projects ya vulnerability's will be found.
I mean go ahead, but I think the most it will do is stress out the one dude maintaining it.
sorry if this comment comes off as very rude. Have a good day.

@pazza2234 as it clearly says in the heading, this is satire

my bad, I apoligise.

I am going to keep using Xorg for decades even after it is removed from every major distro and I will join whatever "Xorg as a retro system" community appears and continue to daily drive it with hardware and software that is still compatible with Xorg and I will use whatever Firefox fork is still compatible with Xorg and when that stops receiving updates I will get hacked but the hacker can't make me switch to Wayland because I will have Xorg in a cold storage backup and I will restore my system from that and I will have to just keep doing that anytime I get hacked so you can all try to hack me and install Wayland on my computer as the challenge while I try to keep removing it and reinstalling Xorg

Xorg breaks touchpad gestures

Xorg breaks PipeWire