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    Wayland vs Xorg be like (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 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.