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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

X11 has it's own issues (and there are a lot of them, including security)

What features exactly?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I didnt even remotely imply that x11 doesn't have issues, so im not sure why that was brought up. The goal is to make wayland an acceptable and universal replacement, Everyone knows x11 is dying but wayland isnt ready to replace it yet

Things like window embedding, the wayland way is for each app to have it's own embedded compositor. Wayland has no support for things like overlays/always on top (Useful for OSKs PR has been made but like all wayland things, we might not get it for another couple years, or perhaps never), currently missing support for reading other window states (PR made for this as well, but again, who knows how long it will take), Still no support for window positioning (again PR made), Emulated input events (libei is not universally supported) And these are just the ones off the top of my head, There were others but I cant think of them ATM