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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Marmaduke@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

The tech for the blobs of the "slimes" got reused for the Portal 2 gels, actually.

SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Marmaduke@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago

Rename it to openSUS

XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Marmaduke@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A compositor is a program responsible for displaying program windows and things like the desktop on your PC. On Linux, the compositor is just a program that starts when the system starts. There are multiple desktop environments available, like Plasma or Gnome, each comes with their own compositor, you can choose which you want to use.

Wayland is a protocol that the programs use to communicate with the compositor. Everyone decided to use Wayland, because if each compositor had their own protocol it would be silly, eg some programs would work only on Plasma or Gnome.

It's a replacement for a much older X11, which could no longer keep up with requirements of modern apps.

You never hear anything about compositors on Windows or Mac because there's only one available, you can't choose.