Plasma is going all Wayland (blogs.kde.org)

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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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[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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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