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Plasma is going all Wayland
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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Many things still don't have a XDG portal like reading absolute cursor position (useful for some accessibility and productivity apps) and things who do have an XDG portal like screenshoting are usually not implemented in popular OS-agnostic libraries
Those things aren't supported in XWayland either for security reasons iirc and require X11 but I could be wrong
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
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.
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.
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.