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GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades (linuxiac.com)
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Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself.

In other words, the GNOME project is finally closing one of the longest chapters in Linux desktop history. With the upcoming GNOME 50 release, scheduled for mid-march 2026, the desktop environment will officially drop support for the native X11 session, making Wayland the sole display system moving forward.

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[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago

I used to love GNOME 2, but now it's unbearable. It looks and it behaves as if it's a toy for kids.

Also, why do apps have buttons in their title bar? It makes no sense.

I'm sad that a good open source project such as GNOME has become so bad.

[-] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Become "so bad" is different than "I don't like it"

A lot of people use gnome without any issues. It's stable, it has one of the simplest workflows and it's generally out of the way.

[-] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

on the contrary, why do so many old apps waste all the space in the title bar just for the title and 3 buttons? it makes no sense.

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