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The issue with Xorg is that it runs as root by default (there seems to be ways to run it as non-root according to Gentoo Wiki, but I'm pretty sure most popular
by alophawen 5y ago
The issue with Xorg is that it runs as root by default (there seems to be ways to run it as non-root according to Gentoo Wiki, but I'm pretty sure most popular distros runs it as root).
One of the selling points of wayland is that it does not.
EDIT: See child replies. I am outdated info.
- kevincox 5y agoI don't think most distributions run X as root anymore. But it does generally have a lot of access as it can open apps and log keys. XWayland definitely doesn't run as root, but still has a lot of access to any X applications that you are running.
- alophawen 5y agoThanks for pointing that out. I'm not up to date on this.