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
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.
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.
My neighbors dog is Wayland. He’s a good boy!
Famous country western singer Wayland Jenkins.
