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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

In Wayland programs are supposed to draw their own title bar

That's incorrect. GNOME does it like this, Plasma doesn't. KDE came up with a standard so a program can communicate this to the DE, GNOME slept on it. That's why e.g. mpv doesn't run well on GNOME.