• Shareni@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Nope, I meant that the wayland compositors are inflexible monoliths that are so tightly integrated into a DE that they can’t be replaced. Xorg might be bloated, but it follows the UNIX philosophy closely enough that each part of the stack above xorg can be trivially replaced.

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      8 months ago

      I guess my interpretation was too charitable.

      Nothing in the protocol prevents you from splitting the server from the window manager, just everyone implementing the wayland server protocol didn’t see any benefit in splitting it out.