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

    • roflo1@feddit.nl
      45·
      2 months ago

      Initial release of xorg was 2004

      Yeah, but XOrg was forked from XFree86.

      or in meme form

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        2 months ago

        And the X11 Protocol was released in 1987. We’re not replacing Xorg specifically as much as we are replacing X11.

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      2 months ago

      Xorg is from 2004, but it is an implementation of X11/X Windows which dates as far back as 1984. Wayland replaces both of that.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      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.