Comment on X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service

• filister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Both X11 and Wayland are competing display server protocols in the Linux ecosystem.

  X11 is the old version that is now slowly abandoned in favour of Wayland, but still there are things like Nvidia with their proprietary drivers that run better under X11.

  Hence the word play.

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  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How does wayland avoid X fees?

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    • oKtosiTe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not at all. That’s the joke.

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