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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

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.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    11·
    7 hours ago

    KDE:

    “The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design”

    Xorg is a monolith with essentially one implementation. Wayland is a modular system with almost every component available from multiple sources.

    Saying adopting Wayland means you “hate UNIX” is one of the least thoughtful arguments I can imagine.