X: On the Road to Nowhere 141 X: On the Road to Nowhere X is just so stupid, why do people use it? Beats us. Maybe it’s because they don’t have a choice. (See Figure 2) Nobody really wants to run X: what they do want is a way to run several applications at the same time using large screen. If you want to run Unix, it’s either X or a dumb character-based terminal. Pick your poison.

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