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Episode 18: Wayland and My eX-11 | The IT Guy Show 018
November 18th, 2025 | 47 mins 33 secs
brodie robertson, compositor, display server, fedora, gnome, itguyeric, kde, linux, linux desktop, linux history, linux performance, linux podcast, linux window manager, nixos, open source, pipewire, screen tearing, tech podcast, the it guy show, tiling window manager, ubuntu, wayland, x11, xorg
Join Eric and guest Brodie Robertson as they explore the history of X11, its weird quirks, and why it stuck around so long, before unpacking what makes Wayland different, better, and sometimes frustrating.