Why Many of Us Use X Server and Will Continue to Use It For Many Years to Come
Even former IBM/Red Hat staff needs to get stuff done:
X forwarding, which means an encrypted SSH tunnel (unlike the inefficient, grainy proprietary crap with bug doors), helped me work a bit from my home desktop - i.e. access files or connect to Thunderbird - whenever I was on holiday. I didn't need to carry my machine with me through borders and all that. No, I didn't want to use webmail and I don't fancy my mail going through bloated and insecure browsers. X.org projects have long had that support built in. I started leveraging X forwarding around 2001 when I studied Computer Science and preferred accessing the lab from home. Nowadays I use many X tools and write some programs that use those tools.
To me, Wayland (in its current form) is out of the question. It would only break things, and what for? To appease IBM (Red Hat)? No, thanks.
I am glad to see that LXO (Alex Oliva) from the FSF's Board feels the same way. Remember that he briefly worked for IBM after it had taken over his longtime employer, Red Hat.
There are many people like us and Igor Ljubuncic recently showed that Wayland's performance is poor, aside from stability and compatibility perils. Here are the tables:
People who are not interested in using Wayland don't make a political statement. Wayland pushers typically make a corporate statement, not a political statement. Don't make this about politics. █