ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on? (programming.dev)

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[-] pelya@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

X11 is an ancient piece of crap which no one wants to update or maintain.

Wayland is the new and better display manager.

However, many old applications only support X11, because they depend on some arcane feature not yet supported by Wayland. Hence, the drama.

[-] snaggen@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago

Also, it was easier to support X11, since there is no security. You wanted to read other applications key events, no problem. Want to read the screen, without without anyone knowing? No, problem, just read it. With Wayland you must use APIs for stuff, and you are not allowed to do everything.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

Not relevant to the question, but Lemmy lets you edit titles. It's pretty nice.

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