Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare(oro.gay)
52 points by jannesan | 42 comments
Blog post by Yves Auxier arguing that Flatpak, the Linux desktop app packaging and sandboxing system, has serious security problems.
#wayland on Hacker News
17 stories tagged wayland, newest first.
Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design(github.com)
670 points by FinalDestiny | 275 comments
GitHub repository for DEsk, a beta Wayland desktop environment for Linux with a skeuomorphic design, including Fedora and Debian packaging.
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland(rustdesk.com)
329 points by rustdesk | 142 comments
RustDesk blog post announcing unattended remote access support on Wayland, including multi-monitor setups, with a preview build for Debian/Ubuntu x86_64.
Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK(marco-nett.de)
344 points by hoechst | 224 comments
A personal blog post measuring input latency on Linux for gaming, comparing X11 vs Wayland, variable refresh rate, and DXVK settings.
Every Frame Perfect(tonsky.me)
792 points by ravenical | 260 comments
Blog post by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) arguing that UIs should follow Wayland's "every frame is perfect" goal, avoiding glitchy intermediate states.
Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager(isaacfreund.com)
317 points by dpassens | 174 comments
Blog post by Isaac Freund explaining how river 0.4.0 separates the Wayland compositor from the window manager via the river-window-management-v1 protocol.
Vim 9.2(vim.org)
372 points by tapanjk | 154 comments
Official vim.org announcement of the Vim 9.2 release, highlighting Vim9 enums, generics, tuples, Wayland, autocompletion, XDG support and diff mode improvements.
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor(alexxcons.github.io)
345 points by pantalaimon | 270 comments
Xfce team blog post announcing xfwl4, a donation-funded Wayland compositor developed by Brian Tarricone to replicate xfwm4 behavior, with its roadmap.
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig(git.dec05eba.com)
634 points by snvzz | 386 comments
Git repository page for Phoenix, a new X server written from scratch in Zig as a modern alternative to the Xorg server, currently in early development.
Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor(github.com)
429 points by atlintots | 212 comments
GitHub repository for niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor written in Rust.
Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal(github.com)
1017 points by mmulet | 137 comments
GitHub repository for term.everything, a from-scratch Wayland compositor that renders GUI applications inside a terminal.
Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop(quickshell.org)
345 points by abhinavk | 45 comments
Homepage of Quickshell, a toolkit for building custom Linux desktop shells, bars, and widgets, with a screenshot gallery and a 0.2.0 release banner.
The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container(waydro.id)
485 points by birdculture | 130 comments
Homepage of Waydroid, a container-based tool for booting a full Android system on GNU/Linux systems running Wayland desktops.
Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion(mort.coffee)
562 points by todsacerdoti | 435 comments
Blog post measuring cursor input latency under Wayland versus X11 on Linux using a 240 FPS phone camera to produce hard numbers.
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6(lwn.net)
759 points by jrepinc | 551 comments
LWN article by Joe Brockmeier on the KDE Plasma 6 megarelease, covering the move to Wayland, Qt 6, and KDE Frameworks 6.
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice(lwn.net)
340 points by 5e92cb50239222b | 267 comments
LWN brief quoting Red Hat's Matthias Clasen announcing that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future RHEL release, with Fedora support uncertain.