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Wayland isn't a window manager or a desktop environment, it's a display server protocol. I don't personally use Mint, but I skimmed through the video and it seems if you update to the latest version of Mint, you can use the Wayland session, but it's still very work in progress and you should probably just stick to the X session for the time being until they work everything out and get it to a more usable state.

And for the difference between a window manager and a desktop environment: A window manager is pretty self explanatory... it manages windows! It's what handles the positioning, sizing, etc. of windows (simple explanation). Examples of a window manager are things like i3wm, swaywm, bspwm, awesomewm, KWin (KDE Plasma's window manager), Mutter (GNOME's window manager), etc.

A desktop environment is essentially a "suite" of things (including a window manager!) that most people would expect from a computer, things like a status bar/task bar, control panels, etc. Examples of a desktop environment are things like KDE Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, Budgie, etc.

I simplified things quite a bit, but that's the jist of it. If you want to get into semantics, technically KWin and Mutter are also Wayland compositors, but that's a whole other can of worms. [insert your favorite search engine's name] is your friend if you want to learn more from someone who can probably explain things way better than I can, but hopefully I was able to somewhat help clarify the differences, lol.

Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The year of the Wayland desktop is here (or next year most likely) and I'm all for it!

I fucking hate Reddit so much in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such "desperate" democrats and "Socialists," "revolutionaries" and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. For the same reasons, the struggle that the Egyptians merchants and bourgeois intellectuals are waging for the independence of Egypt is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and bourgeois title of the leaders of Egyptian national movement, despite the fact that they are opposed to socialism; whereas the struggle that the British "Labour" Government is waging to preserve Egypt's dependent position is for the same reason a reactionary struggle, despite the proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of the government, despite the fact that they are "for" socialism. There is no need to mention the national movement in other, larger, colonial and dependent countries, such as India and China, every step of which along the road to liberation, even if it runs counter to the demands of formal democracy, is a steam-hammer blow at imperialism, i.e., is undoubtedly a revolutionary step.

— Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism

They didn't read the book stalin-bummed

U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Just one more offensive Biden, please, I swear we'll get them this time, please....