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

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    5 months ago

    Okay I think I’m following so far

    And the whole “show stuff on screen” thing

    I’m guessing it’s kinda like: you’ve got a couple people sitting there wanting to play with Legos and only so much room to play. They don’t have direct access to the play area because of security reasons so they have to ask someone to place the Legos for them. Wayland, X11, and Xorg are all different people they can talk to to place the Legos in a way where no one is fighting for space.

    So basically it’s a new way for programs to negotiate who has what part of the screen?

    I’m guessing Wayland is either more feature rich or lighter on resources and that’s why it’s a big deal?

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      5 months ago

      It’s an entirely different design than X11. It gains features not possible to implement on X11, while losing many features exists in X11. People that like those new features love Wayland, while people that use those missing features hate it.