Why Wayland Was Created to Replace X

HackersOnBoard · Talk · YouTube title: [Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

Why it's here

Whenever Wayland versus X comes up, HN points to this talk as the authoritative explanation from an X maintainer of why X was replaced.

What it covers

A linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created. It covers X's hardware abstraction and architecture and why they became problematic for modern graphics.