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  • Second System Syndrome otherwise know as ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’.

    X11 is old, extraordinarily old for software. As such, the problems it solves are not really problems anymore.

    Rather than gradually evolving X11, into say X12, the whole thing got dumped on the trash pile and a brand new entirely incompatible thing called Wayland was started from scratch.

    Replacing software with literally hundreds (if not thousands) of person-years of development devoted to it over its lifetime is hard. Which meant that Wayland had an unfeasibly steep hill to climb, as such it’s early days were tumultuous and it got a bit of a bad rap.

    There is far more (qualitative and quantitative) history than will fit into this margin comment.






  • Four GPU’s with four outputs each would do it.

    You’d only need a main board with for x16 physical slots as PCIe x4 would be sufficient bandwidth for desktops.

    You’re also not pushing the GPU’s power envelope, so one beefy or two smaller PSU’s would suffice. The AMD WX7000 series workstation cards don’t even have the extra PCIe power connectors (last time I looked).

    I suspect these are more likely to be two or more machines though.