"Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer that allows for running full X11-only desktop environments using Wayland. It is essentially an X11 server backed by Wayland, leveraging wlroots and Xwayland. Our goal is for Wayback to eventually be a completely drop-in replacement to the Xorg binary, thus reducing maintenance burden for distro maintainers."

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seems like popping open WSL in a Windows VM running inside a Linux host

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is more like creating a Linux kernel deigned to run only WINE.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A more apt comparison would be using the Windows guest to remote into the Linux host via xorg piping, waypipe, VNC, RDP, etcetera, which conveys your feeling of weirdness while being a closer approximation of what this really does.

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