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    Wayland vs Xorg be like (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    Yes, I made it using a laptop's trackpad, how could you tell?

    [Image description: Panel 1: Young man confidently walking, his vest bears the Wayland logo. Behind him is a grunt with the Gnome logo on his face holding a katana. The young man says: "It's high time you retire, old man!" Panel 2: An old man with a long beard and the Xorg logo on his chest is sitting on a throne and petting a rat, the XFCE mascot. He says: "It's still a hundred years too early for you to defeat me!" ]

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    X11 is insecure. Any program can read any keystroke, any windows contents, can input anything anywhere etc.

    The concept of separate apps basically doesnt exist.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Those security features are misleading.

    A second app can already read all of your files, modify the first app, modify $PATH to replace your display server and do anything it wants as your user. Running wayland instead of Xorg provides no tangible benefits in security.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    Yes and wayland is a puzzle piece of fixing that.

    The other one is containerized apps that use a trusted system portal to get opt-in filesystem access to actually needed directories.