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Re: What I like about X

> It is X that runs on Wayland. You don't even have to recompile your code.

So why not just use X then? I thought the idea was to get rid of stuff no longer being used, but if XWayland is X on wayland then it must essentially be the same as vanilla X no?

Or is XWayland the tidy up of X that everyone probably really needed instead of Wayland itself?

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