ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on. - eviltoast

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    10 months ago

    Wayland was initially invented for kiosk applications. Then the idea popped up, why not use it for Display Managers too? (graphical login window needs to display somehow) And then the whole thing blew up as a universal solution it was not designed for. So, Wayland is not ideal either.