Will Wayland Finally Replace Xorg For Linux Users? Finally?
For people who aren’t familiar with Linux-y stuff, Wayland is the long-in-the-works successor to the X Window system, which is nearly 40 years old, and the Xorg display server implementation, which turns 20 in April. Wayland itself just celebrated its 15th anniversary, and slowly but surely, this project has been taking steps to replace X11, which has stuck around largely as a result of inertia.