Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad
MaxLeiter
15 points
2 comments
July 29, 2026
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lukeh
Correction: Apple never used X as a native window system, nor did NeXT. The did provide the hooks for an X11 server to run on macOS. From memory this was due to requests from the academic community at the time.