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Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make ricers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne Stroustrup? Show the world how pretty your computer can be!

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It does both jobs but they're typically referred to as compositors. See basically any description of any project (including niri). Additionally it's confusing because then people have to lookup if it's X or Wayland when we have very obvious terms that we can use to distinguish implicitly

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor