Wayland is described as 'Project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Wayland for Linux, BSD and Mac. The best Wayland alternative is X11, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wayland are Compiz, XLibre, XQuartz and Mir.
The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.Org Foundation is the educational non-profit corporation whose Board serves this effort, and whose Members...
Compiz is a compositing manager adding fancy effects to your windows, from drop shadows to awesome desktop effects like the Desktop Cube or the Expo view.
The XLibre contributors strive to cleanup and strengthen the existing code base while maintaining backward compatibility to make X11 a viable choice for the future. Another goal is to actively enhance the functionality of the Xserver and its drivers.
This provides a windowing system for some applications that normally run on Linux, as well as for forwarding GUI from the server to your client computer.
Phoenix is a new X server, written from scratch in Zig (not a fork of Xorg server). This X server is designed to be a modern alternative to the Xorg server.
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