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What Is Wayland on Linux, and How Is It Different From X?

www.howtogeek.com What Is Wayland on Linux, and How Is It Different From X?

X11, or the X Window System, lets your graphical desktop environment display and control windows. Wayland is a replacement for X11. It’s designed to be faster and more secure. Here’s what you need to know about them.

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Tldr: No need to switch yet.

I admire the endurance of the wayland devs though.

Edit: added tldr
- If you're using KDE, the improvement will be amazing.
  
  Would never switch back
  
  I do. What's the difference?
- Unfortunately in production use Wayland feels like X.org from around 2000 (before the renaming). I was told not to worry about 'corner cases' but when small bugs pop up daily I just can't drive Wayland on my main office machine, although I'd really like to.
  
  I've been using Wayland almost exclusively for around 2 years now and have had a way more stable and enjoyable experience than with X. Especially mixed refresh rate, VRR and scaling work way better, and the added security gives me peace of mind that sketchy / insecure apps aren't spying on me.
  
  Give examples? Apart from RDP not being functional I don't see any reason for a simple office box.
- It's standard on Fedora already. But I remember first hearing about Wayland many years ago. So, definitely Kudos to the Devs 🙂
- Yeah, you gonna need to give more context!
  Your comment has no baseline.
  
  That was not a statement of my own, I just rephrased the conclusion of the article.

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