I stumbled upon this post regarding an earlier rant about wayland, but now it seems fine, according to the author.

After using Linux for nearly 5 years, using both depending on distros defaults, I have to admit that I never got the core/main/game changing differences between wayland and x11.

To be said, that I also dont do fancy linux things other than basic sysadmin stuff and from time to time repair the mess my curiosity left behind.

Could somebody explain the differences between those two and afterwards maybe also say some words about what this has to do with the difference between window managers and desktop environments?

I am also happy about links to good blog posts or stuff, that target this very questions (as long as the questions make sence of course). Thanks beforehand :)

    • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Excellant write up, thank you.

      I’m not exactly sure what ‘opinionated’ means in terms of software, could you (or anyone who sees this) define it?

    • cornshark@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Thanks for the interesting write up! Why does Nvidia have to “adopt” Wayland? Is it not just fundamentally drawing some textures into some rectangles?

        • cornshark@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Why does Nvidia need to support night light? Can’t someone from Wayland just write a simple shader in any shader language that does colour adjustments and apply it to the desktop?

    • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world
      23·
      8 months ago

      This reads like an AI response to me.

      Mac OS has never used X11 as a primary display system. Apple had a version they supplied with older Mac OS X versions for people using older Unix applications (and half-arsed ports) but that’s been unsupported since 2012. You can still install the modern “XQuartz” open source equivalent, but it’s still secondary.