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Discussion on: The Linux Desktop Deep Dive

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Mark Blakeney • Edited

The most popular DE is GNOME which by default uses Wayland, not X11. Wayland architecture is quite different so you should probably at least mention that. Perhaps add a separate section or even full post about it?

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Angad Sharma

In the LTS release of ubuntu GNOME, there was an option to use both X11 as well as Wayland. But for ubuntu 18.04 at least, it was shipped with X11 by default.

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Osqui LittleRiver

In fact, this article is already so old-fashioned...

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Angad Sharma

Yeah. I wanted to get the fundamentals right before going into modern systems. I guess its how I learn :)