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

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Initial release of xorg was 2004

    Yeah, but XOrg was forked from XFree86.

    or in meme form

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    That hill has a name. GNOME. Wayland's governance on the whole is a fucking disaster (alternatively, the best sitcom you'll ever see), but GNOME is a particularly malignant growth on the project's taint, with completely baseless NACKs that have delayed some protocols by months, and missing/incomplete features in Mutter.

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