I wasn't aware that they were back to focusing on their own OS again, apologies.
As for alternative GUI's, the problem of drivers is magnified exponentially by that.. there isn't usually anything besides basic VESA modesetting and it's usually quite slow compared to X with userland drivers.
I know that both Syllable and Haiku lack all but basic 2D capabilities (..both have ports of SDL I believe, but no OpenGL).
Don't get me wrong, I have very little use for OpenGL myself.. I've used OpenBSD primarily for years which only had software acceleration with Mesa, but the direction went with these OS's mean 3D drivers/libraries will have to be explicitly written.
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