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KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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AFAIK, Fedora is the only distro that's getting rid of X11 support, the other distros are still packaging it AFAIK.
Nobody's getting rid of X support. Not for several years.
Go tell Fedora that then lol. They want it gone to the point where Nate is telling users who want X to stay away on that post. Xwayland I believe will still be around though.
They'll recant after their usage drops to a fraction. This move makes zero sense no matter how you look at it. As a generalist distro it's too early to drop X.
If they want to become a niche distro whose only claim to fame is "we only pack Plasma 6", big whoop, like there's any shortage of that. What kind of distro defines itself by what it does not offer? And is that the kind of distro that Fedora aims to be?
Hell, GNOME has been wayland-default since twenty-fucking-sixteen if I remember my dates right. You're overestimating the value X.Org provides.
Yeah its about time gnome drop support to encourage developers to switch to wayland.
This is the kind of distro Fedora has always been, both for better and for worse.
I don't see this decision driving users away from Fedora any more than other decisions they've made in the past and will surely make in the future.
There were news about Ubuntu doing it too some time ago, maybe they realized it’s not feasible yet. I don’t follow their development as I don’t use those distros