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Samsy ,

Like you are 5: Wayland is the thing that brings the beep boop from the computer to a screen. It’s the son/daughter from Xorg which is old af, and needs to die because no one wants to work on it trillions lines of code.

Samsy ,

Like you are 5: Wayland is the thing that brings the beep boop from the computer to a screen. It’s the son/daughter from Xorg which is old af, and needs to die because no one wants to work on it trillions lines of code.

Gakomi ,

In short a graphics interface with code that is not old af!

caseyweederman ,

I mean
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f8abc0cc-9cf3-499f-8f04-b1a72379d3e0.jpeg
Only relative to Xorg

Unyieldingly ,

Good things take time

trolololol ,

It’s a baby compared to X10

Not to mention the GOAT: tty

neclimdul ,

That’s technically true but not the whole picture since it was missing huge (some would say basic) features I wouldn’t say it was really “released”

It was quite a while after that they called it and it’s libraries feature of complete. With wm DE integration and multiple monitors coming a while after that, it’s only been in the last maybe 5 years it was really usable? A solid option for a lot of people for maybe half that?

That makes it pretty dang new.

caseyweederman ,

Well. Is Xorg feature-complete?

neclimdul ,

It was the baseline so… Yes?

The feature completion was defined as running most normal applications and by the people working on Wayland not me some random guy on the Internet.

Because no one is going to use Wayland, if they can’t… use it

Tikiporch ,

Famous country western singer Wayland Jenkins.

fxt_ryknow ,

My neighbors dog is Wayland. He’s a good boy!

sabin ,

In short it’s essentially a protocol that defines what type of requests must be sent between applications and a compositor.

dlok ,

I don’t know what compositor is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

trolololol ,

See what you did?! Now there’s two of them!

Telodzrum ,

It draws on the screen what programs and the desktop environment tell it to – including opacity, tiling, clicks, drags, updates, etc. Everything you visually perceive on the monitor is the product of the compositor.

Psythik ,

Okay but why is it seemingly always associated with gaming? Anytime someone mentions Linux gaming, I often hear people asking them if they’re using Wayland.

Telodzrum ,

I’ll step aside for a longer answer on this one. But, I can say that for my usecase (which is mainly gaming on my home PC on an all AMD build with KDE on Arch) it is noticeably and measurably faster than X11. We’re talking 2-15 (the median is around 4 or 5) FPS depending on the game on 144hz screens.

sp3tr4l ,

Edit: Made the Yutani joke before I realized I’d been beaten to it.

EnderMB ,

Isn’t he the personal assistant to Mr Burns?

Mr3Sepz ,

I am also a noob, but here is how I think it is: What your Computer is doing is not what you see. Until now we were using an oldschool way to display stuff called X11 aka. Xorg.

But this is very old and has 3 problems:

  • It is very old and hard to improve (code very complex, spagetthi, whatever)
  • Has security problems (I dont know what or how)
  • No modern features yet (HDR, and so on)

Because people want to use new display features to work and security, people built this display software code whatever new from scratch. And this is Wayland.

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