🚀 go-pugleaf

fdhnfu@vayvax.pbz writes:

> want extras you have to deal with the performance decrease.  Most WPs for
> Linux are X based. X is pretty durn big, and has a sizable overhead by
> itself.

My X11 hardware terminal has 4 MB ram and 2 MB of that is allocated to
font and bitmap cache. The processor runs at 25 MHz and is roughly the
same as a 386DX16 for computational power. It runs like the blazer for
doing X related stuff, all over a 2Mb Ethernet-based link.

So please don't claim that X is a hog, or that it has a "sizeable over
head", or that it runs slow. It was designed *and* *used* in the 1980s
when processing power and memory was expensive. By todays standards it
is a minimalist system!

I hope to dispell the myths desiring X to be replaced. These arguments
held water in 1988 but no longer hold true today. X is a fine protocol
for transmitting low level windowing system information. Don't try and
replace it, or blame it for non-existent faults.

--
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use
a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for
computing than it is for other tools (eg automobiles, airplanes, guns
or power saws).