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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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Isn't waypipe meant to replace X over SSH?

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I don't know enough about Wayland, so maybe?

this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025

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