KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)

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Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't used x11 in like 5 years, I won't miss it :P

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 14 points 3 weeks ago

I still run a lot of applications that use it, but they work fine through a compatibility layer

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

The only program I have issues with is CrealityPrint and I could just switch to X11 when I need it but instead I just switched entirely to PrusaSlicer. I find everything else works a lot better, especially in terms of cleanly handling fractional scaling

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh, I feel you there. I need fractional scaling for my eyes these days to get the elements just visible without wasting so much screen.

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