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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (7 children)

For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Neither of them are window managers, they are windowing systems. A window manager is the part that actually lets you move around windows and draws the borders and stuff, like kwin, mutter, xfwm, i3, etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.

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