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
Isn’t he the personal assistant to Mr Burns?
In short a graphics interface with code that is not old af!
My neighbors dog is Wayland. He’s a good boy!
In short it’s essentially a protocol that defines what type of requests must be sent between applications and a compositor.
I don’t know what compositor is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask
See what you did?! Now there’s two of them!
It draws on the screen what programs and the desktop environment tell it to – including opacity, tiling, clicks, drags, updates, etc. Everything you visually perceive on the monitor is the product of the compositor.
Famous country western singer Wayland Jenkins.