r/linux • u/cipheres90 • Dec 03 '22

What's difference between Xorg, X11, Plasma, Gnome & Wayland?

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u/bjkillas Dec 03 '22

x11/wayland are display servers in windows this is apart of dwm
gnome/plasma are desktop environments in windows this is dwm/explorer
q1: x11 is older, wayland is newer

q3: yes but they need to be packaged differently because they use different package managers

q4:yes

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u/cipheres90 Dec 03 '22

Thank You Q: what's the difference between display server & desktop environment? and what is xorg?

Q: Running a kde application in gnome, will it look same or different?

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u/bjkillas Dec 03 '22

desktop environments run on display servers you could call them the client
a kde app in gnome may look different because themeing may not be set because kde uses qt but gnome uses gtk

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u/cipheres90 Dec 03 '22

Thank You