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[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 4 points 11 months ago

A WM crash does not bring down all the other applications... but an X11 server crash definitely does!

In wayland they are the same program (a.k.a. the compositor). User applications can be designed to survive a compositor crash, though many are not able yet

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