▲ 370 ▼ Linux Mint bringing Wayland sessions to Cinnamon (blog.linuxmint.com) submitted 2 years ago by ZcaT@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 86 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (3 children) Can someone explain to me what Wayland is? I don't fully understand I read wikis on it but I'm still new to a lot of this permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] gornius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) The way for your desktop to communicate with the hardware. It used to be X11 - A server-client architecture, which meant your desktop was effectively just a client that told the server what to do. The server was the one doing the drawing Wayland is just a protocol, defining how programs and desktop should communicate with each other - without a middleman that was X11 server. The desktop does the actual drawing here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) So it's faster, basically? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago Yes permalink fedilink source parent [–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Software that displays programs on screen. X11 goes way back and is inefficient. Wayland is the new standard but is seeing regular improvement and updates. I know Fedora have already moved to Wayland. I think Ubuntu have now too. Mint going this direction is good news. TLDR, software that displays apps on screen. X11 is old and awkward. Wayland is new and better but has been slowly becoming standard. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* Wayland is basically the graphics system. Technically, Wayland is just the protocol and a “compositor” that implements Wayland acts as the display server—the thing that draws and manages the application windows on your screen. Wayland replaces X11 ( the X Window System ), if you know what that is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gornius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) The way for your desktop to communicate with the hardware. It used to be X11 - A server-client architecture, which meant your desktop was effectively just a client that told the server what to do. The server was the one doing the drawing Wayland is just a protocol, defining how programs and desktop should communicate with each other - without a middleman that was X11 server. The desktop does the actual drawing here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) So it's faster, basically? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago Yes permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) So it's faster, basically? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago Yes permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Software that displays programs on screen. X11 goes way back and is inefficient. Wayland is the new standard but is seeing regular improvement and updates. I know Fedora have already moved to Wayland. I think Ubuntu have now too. Mint going this direction is good news. TLDR, software that displays apps on screen. X11 is old and awkward. Wayland is new and better but has been slowly becoming standard. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* Wayland is basically the graphics system. Technically, Wayland is just the protocol and a “compositor” that implements Wayland acts as the display server—the thing that draws and manages the application windows on your screen. Wayland replaces X11 ( the X Window System ), if you know what that is. permalink fedilink source parent