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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In theory yes. In practice most X11 applications can be ran using Xwayland as a compatibility layer

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Additionally any application using a GUI toolkit (like kde, qt or gtk etc) only needs to to update to a version that has native Wayland support. Which means most applications already support it. At least if they don't use any X11 APIs directly (which is not that common).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not really a GUI toolkit but many many games use SDL and they also gain wayland support with a library update