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    I don't know who Wayland is (i.imgflip.com)
    submitted 11 months ago by Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I'd be incredibly thankful

    I swear that all the stuff I find is like super in depth technical stuff that just loses me in no time flat

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    [–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    The part about negotiation is a bit off-track.

    On one end, in the kernel, there's a big array of pixels that is a picture that gets drawn on your monitor (or monitors). On the other end are a bunch of programs that want to draw stuff, like pictures of your friends and web pages. In between is software that decides how the stuff the softwares want to draw get put into the pixel array. This is Wayland; it was written to replace Xorg, which is what did that job for decades prior to Wayland.

    If you understand the concepts of Xorg and window managers, Wayland + a compositor = Xorg + a window manager. Wayland abdicated a lot of work to the compositors, making it simpler and easier to maintain (and compositors more complex and harder). But together, they all do basically the same job. If one of the compositors implemented a network protocol, then you could declare equivalency.

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Display Server + Compositor + Window Manager = Wayland Compositor = Implementation of Wayland Protocol

    Display Server = Xorg = X11 Implementation

    Xorg + Separate Compositor + Separate Window Manger = the X11 equivalent of a Wayland Compositor