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Another X11 revival for Linux has arrived, but what's the point?

For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but Wayland is slowly taking over as the modern replacement. There are a few ...
ZDNet

Linux graphical apps coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux

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PC Magazine

X Window

Officially the "X Window System," but also called "X Windows," "X11" or simply "X," it is an open-source windowing system developed at MIT in the early 1980s. It was created to provide a common ...
Ars Technica

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

Often times, when I am researching something about computers or coding that has been around a very long while, I will come across a document on a university website that tells me more about that thing ...
University of Wyoming

X11 with Windows Subsystem for Linux

The purpose of this page is to provide Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users guidance on how to use X Window System (X11; X) forwarding with Teton. X11 is a great tool for interactively viewing R ...
Ars Technica

The X Window System is 40, archaic as heck, and still relevant

I think the biggest issue with X these days is that there's not a development team that wants to maintain it any more. It gets a few patches here and there and probably will do for a long time, but in ...