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River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

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  1. Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain.
    It's an alternative to the X window system: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends on the target audience etc. In this case, I would say it's ok that they don't explain what Wayland is on the project page. Wayland has pretty widespread adoption now and I reckon the vast majority of people that might be interested in projects like tiling window managers for linux will have heard of it (and that has probably been true for quite some time now, Wayland has been around for over a decade). If you're keen to dig into it more, another popular project in the space is sway https://swaywm.org/.

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    Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.
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    • Open Source
    It's an alternative to the X window system: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends on the target audience etc. In this case, I would say it's ok that they don't explain what Wayland is on the project page. Wayland has pretty widespread adoption now and I reckon the vast majority of people that might be interested in projects like tiling window managers for linux will have heard of it (and that has probably been true for quite some time now, Wayland has been around for over a decade). If you're keen to dig into it more, another popular project in the space is sway https://swaywm.org/.

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