ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Framebuffer

A framebuffer is like a really cool coloring book with a lot of pages.

Imagine if you had a coloring book with different pages, one for each frame of a cartoon movie. Each page is like a picture of a scene in the movie that you can color in.

In a computer, the framebuffer is like the coloring book, and it holds all the pictures or frames that you see on your screen. Each frame has a lot of little squares called pixels. These pixels are like tiny dots that make up the picture you see on the screen.

The computer sends information to the framebuffer about what colors those pixels should be, and then the framebuffer shows those pixels on the screen in the right positions.

So, basically, the framebuffer is like a book with all the pages of a coloring book and it tells each pixel where to go and what color to be in.