Recently, in I think a subservience report, Henry stated that “If you care at all about security use Wayland” and was wondering what does Wayland do for security that Xorg doesn’t offer? I’ve never gone into Wayland at all since from what I’ve been told it’s not ready for day-to-day use.

Yes. It’s a pretty significant difference. The main issue is that there is no isolation whatsoever between programs in X11, so any program on your computer can sit in the background and read data and keystrokes from any open window. X has plenty of other non-security problems anyways. The general r…

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alex September 19, 2022, 6:11am 4

I believe it is fully functional, unless you have an Nvidia GPU - still not working with those. Otherwise, you should be fine though

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