Hello Wayland, Goodbye X11 - The year of the Linux desktop!
summary
Wayland is now shipping as the default display stack in places like Fedora 25 and Tizen and aims to replace X11 by moving rendering into clients, making the compositor only present buffers and route input. That change reduces round trips, cuts visible tearing and resize trails, and improves security by preventing arbitrary input snooping. Enlightenment on Wayland shows ~60 fps on low‑end boards versus much lower X rates, and compositors like Weston, KWin and Sway are available.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:24Hello X11
- 3:04Quick and dirty How it works
- 4:18Who does what
- 6:07The Idea...
- 8:43Reality
- 10:24Along comes a 3D Spider
- 12:05The pipeline gets longer
- 13:45Wayland vs. X11
- 17:00Problems as a result
- 19:48What Wayland Does
- 20:56Client vs. Server in Wayland
- 22:20Finally year of the Linux desktop
- 25:04More Compositors
- 26:16What to do
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