An interactive introduction (now unmaintained as author wrote to an HN submission) to X windowing system: https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html h

An interactive introduction (now unmaintained as author wrote to an HN submission) to X windowing system: https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html That covers the graphics part which is the same for the two windowing systems. See Wayland's FAQ[1] and architecture[2] page for why it was made and how they differ. https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html https://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html https://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html Though not primary goal according to their FAQ, Wayland also improves security. For this see: https://lwn.net/Articles/517375/ https://lwn.net/Articles/517375/ http://mupuf.org/blog/2014/02/19/wayland-compositors-why-and-how-to-handle/ http://mupuf.org/blog/2014/02/19/wayland-compositors-why-and...