I can't be the only long time Linux use who still has no real idea what X11 or Wayland are. Except that sometimes software won't work properly with one or the other and I need to paste some arcane command to fix it.
But at the same time it makes me a little sad. Part of the draw of Linux was being able to understand what was under the hood and how to bend it to your will.
I’m hope the community doesn’t lose sight of that in trying to gain new users.
People often talk about the year of Linux or what success is, and in my opinion, Linux had achieved success by 1996.
Trying to pull a casual user from windows or Mac OS is a worthy goal, but that shouldn’t be the end all be all metric.