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Because nobody maintains Xorg anymore. Wayland was started because the Xorg developers thought Xorg had come to the end of the road and was unfixable. You can think of Wayland as X12, except without copyright/trademark concerns.


> Because nobody maintains Xorg anymore

Latest release in June… https://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/

Doesn't seem extremely abandoned.




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