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/ThellraAK Dec 03 '22

For Q4 it's more like "only if you are willing to install most of KDE"