X11 bashing

[Greg Onufer]

mwm at pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>>In article <28063 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Les Hill writes:
>>   Why don't you just stack a couple of vt100s on your desk and save your
>>  inane indictments of X?
>Takes to much space. If only I could convince AAAs to share a keyboard...

At least if Les Hill used vt100's he'd most likely produce postings with
less than 80 characters per line...  it's only courtesy, after all.

Who's forcing anyone to use X?  If you don't like, don't use it.  I use
it not for it's technical merits, but because I hate SunView and X
was easy to obtain, easy to build, and relatively easy to use.  It
also helps that there are some nifty (and some not-so-nifty) tools
that are publicly available for it.   It even almost runs
acceptably fast on my Sun-2 where it is used mostly to have multiple
terminal windows open..

If X is hated so much, where are the alternatives?  Could someone
please post a list of the alternative, "better" windowing systems?
Please indicate the platforms each one runs on...

Cheers!greg