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Comment by michaelmrose

The kernels policy is not to break userspace and RHEL 8 which still supports X is 2 years into a 10 year support term.

Also nvidia still provides drivers for 18 year old hardware for x under solaris

If you want the current version built this year for Linux instead of the legacy version you will have to move up 2010 hardware though.

I find it quite amusing that proponents of insert technology here seem to come in 2 stripes.

A) Those who believe new thing is superior and think you ought to try it

B) People smugly stating that you must move to new thing because the other options are going away see wayland systemd gnome.

It reminds me of a supervisor at a telecom support center who gleefully explained that the new system would hang up on people who kept mashing zero on the automated phone menu that preceeded getting to a person to make you go through it.

He didn't understand that people didn't want to use the new automated process because in general such systems are crappy and confusing.

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