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Plasma is going all Wayland (blogs.kde.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ in the link to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE.

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Among other things, yeah. I know it's coming, but windows having no idea where they were last time they were launched is a major annoyance. Not to mention a few games that crash on Wayland, and not on X11

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Those are all perfectly valid reasons.

    Sometimes I feel the Linux community is too eager to jump on the latest shiny new thing, even when it's not finished or lacking important features, or has bugs.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Counterpoint, the Linux community is also happy to keep old and ancient things alive as well.

    Just look at how many 32 bit dedicated distros are out there. There's even 16 bit ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    That's the thing, I'm really not against Wayland. It 100% is smoother than X11, feels more premium in a way. And code-wise, it's far easier to maintain.

    But so many missing features make it tough to leave x11 behind. Even if just to switch to it once a week when needed.

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