After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what t…
Xorg is a display server. In Wayland, your compositor is the display server.
“I have run graphical multi-seat systems using x11. Something like that will never be possible in the same way for Wayland”
I have to give you this one. Wayland is not designed to be multi-seat. I do not know about “never” but you are right that multi-seat is a design difference.
X11 and Wayland are both protocols.
Xorg is a display server. In Wayland, your compositor is the display server.
“I have run graphical multi-seat systems using x11. Something like that will never be possible in the same way for Wayland”
I have to give you this one. Wayland is not designed to be multi-seat. I do not know about “never” but you are right that multi-seat is a design difference.
My mind goes to this project again: https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs
But wprs only runs one compositor so it does not inherently address multi-seat. Support for that would need to be added.