On Aug 23 2025, at 12:45 pm, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > If anyone knows, could they give me a quick run down of the "X vs. Wayland" > ... I rarely use a Linux desktop environment so it barely effects me, of ever > ... But you can't be involved in Linux (these days) without at least a > cursory knowledge of what's going on. >
Sure, Wayland is mostly just "X12". It was done by the folks who were working on X11 and realizing the protocol was starting to become weighed down by 30 years of development and needed to start over. So they looked at that and created an approach that matches how modern GPUs work so that the Linux Desktop could take advantage of that hardware. >From a user perspective largely the problems people are having stem from >"change is hard." But also Wayland allows for much more secure connections >(also a reality of today's world). So while in X11 every application could >control everything else connected to it (or read passwords from it, etc.) >Wayland restricts those things. This moves some people's cheese that were >using those insecurities for "fun." All in all, it's just Linux growing up and moving on to how modern graphics work instead of having to support APIs for drawing lines. Ted
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