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
Famous country western singer Wayland Jenkins.
Isn’t he the personal assistant to Mr Burns?
In short it’s essentially a protocol that defines what type of requests must be sent between applications and a compositor.
In short a graphics interface with code that is not old af!
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.
My neighbors dog is Wayland. He’s a good boy!
