The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the definitive, funny and educational answer to why X could not be fixed, and links it in almost every Wayland vs X argument.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Mladen Mijatov

Topic

wayland vs x11

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

13

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Daniel Stone actually did a talk involving much of the same subject matter called "The Real Story behind Wayland and X". I'd recommend that over this article (which was partially written by the same guy). He's actually a really charismatic speaker. [VIDEO]

• I remember finding this video enlightening, a talk on the subject by someone who has worked on both X and Wayland: [VIDEO]

• > when in fact the lead developers on Wayland are the actual Xorg maintainers. Daniel Stone[0] incredibly funny and educational talk[1] from 2013 could help many critics who missed the 3 decade long ongoing discussion of why X is bad . We've talked about this …