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I don't know who Wayland is (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I'd be incredibly thankful

I swear that all the stuff I find is like super in depth technical stuff that just loses me in no time flat

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[+] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Initial release of xorg was 2004

Yeah, but XOrg was forked from XFree86.

or in meme form

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And the X11 Protocol was released in 1987. We’re not replacing Xorg specifically as much as we are replacing X11.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Good lord, it's been 4 lustrum already? My, how the olympiads fly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Xorg is from 2004, but it is an implementation of X11/X Windows which dates as far back as 1984. Wayland replaces both of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That hill has a name. GNOME. Wayland's governance on the whole is a fucking disaster (alternatively, the best sitcom you'll ever see), but GNOME is a particularly malignant growth on the project's taint, with completely baseless NACKs that have delayed some protocols by months, and missing/incomplete features in Mutter.