If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I’d be incredibly thankful

I swear that all the stuff I find is like super in depth technical stuff that just loses me in no time flat

  • schnurrito
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    7 months ago

    Since the 80’s, Linux has been using a display server called the X Window System

    This is, of course, not true, given that Linux did not yet exist in the 1980s.

    Unix-like systems that predate Linux did already use it in the 1980s.

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      7 months ago

      That’s an important point for the youngsters here who think Linux was always a thing: x11 far predates Linux