Linux Mint bringing Wayland sessions to Cinnamon

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Can someone explain to me what Wayland is? I don't fully understand I read wikis on it but I'm still new to a lot of this

The way for your desktop to communicate with the hardware.

It used to be X11 - A server-client architecture, which meant your desktop was effectively just a client that told the server what to do. The server was the one doing the drawing

Wayland is just a protocol, defining how programs and desktop should communicate with each other - without a middleman that was X11 server. The desktop does the actual drawing here.

Wayland is basically the graphics system. Technically, Wayland is just the protocol and a “compositor” that implements Wayland acts as the display server—the thing that draws and manages the application windows on your screen.

Wayland replaces X11 ( the X Window System ), if you know what that is.

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