They should have looked at Plan9 and the Rio window manager there.

I don’t know how GPU acceleration would have fit in, but I bet it would have been trivial provided the drivers were sufficient.

All of Rio in Plan9 is 6K lines of code and it’s a more powerful display protocol and window manager (all of the fundamentals are there but none of the niceties) than anything else I’ve ever seen.

The defacto way to remote into a Plan9 system from any OS even today is to use a client side program which implements it all the same way Plan9 does.

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tuna74 3 days ago | parent [-]

The beauty with Free Software and Linux distros is that "they" don't have to do it, anyone who wants to (including you!) can do it.

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Oxodao 3 days ago | parent [-]

In theory. In practice, every app is designed for X11 or Wayland, building your own means you need to follow what most people use anyway if you want to have any working app on your system, or rewrite every app yourself

	▲	tuna74 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		5-10 years ago there were no apps designed for Wayland. If you build it they (app developers) might actually come!