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KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates (www.theregister.com)
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The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.

The team behind the KDE Plasma desktop announced it is going all-in on a Wayland future. The Plasma version 6.8, "which we expect will be sometime in early 2027," will completely drop X11 support.

You don't need to worry just yet. Plasma 6.5 appeared less than a month ago, and it's currently at version 6.5.3. That means there are the entire 6.6 and 6.7 release sequences to get through, which will probably take most of 2026 and some of 2027.

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[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah i swapped from win10 to Linux with my 3070 and its been nothing but a headache on wayland.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Some people in this thread are saying this isn't true anymore so I might give it another go over the holidays. One thing I liked about Wayland was that I could have different resolutions for each of my two monitors. Something I can't seem to get working on X11. Wish me luck!

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh thats interesting. My three monitors are the same resolution so I never thought to even check if something like that was an issue.

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