A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment.

Going along with Fedora 40 looking to disable the GNOME X11 session support (and also making KDE Plasma 6 Wayland-only for Fedora), upstream GNOME is evaluating the prospect of disabling and then removing their X11 session support.

Some concerns were raised already how this could impact downstream desktops like Budgie and Pantheon that haven’t yet fully transitioned over to Wayland. In any event we’ll see where the discussions lead but it’s sure looking like 2024 will be the year that GNOME goes Wayland-only.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    What’s everyone’s Wayland showstopper?

    I’m holding out for better autoclickers/macro recorders before I go to Wayland

  • lascapi@jlai.lu
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    11 months ago

    Sounds good!

    That’s a hard work to try to be compatible with X11 and Wayland.

    I hope that could simplify that.

      • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        But wayland is actually getting development and security updates and every single X11 dev moved onto it… that’s like saying we should drop electric cars for gas because there’s more gas stations right now.

          • Hypx@kbin.social
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            11 months ago

            We will drop electric cars because hydrogen cars are fundamentally superior.

            • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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              11 months ago

              Hydrogen ist a nightmare to store and transport and 90% of the ways it can be produced for the foreseeable future are very polluting.

              • Hypx@kbin.social
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                11 months ago

                That’s just propaganda from BEV companies. They just saying that so people won’t realize that hydrogen solves many of the problems of electric cars.

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    This is great. X11 needs to die in modern DEs so we can all move to Wayland for good.

      • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        In my experience, most of the issues with wayland are caused by applications software not supporting it. If we enter a wayland-only world, developers are pushed towards supporting wayland.

          • edinbruh@feddit.it
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            11 months ago

            You are correct in saying that there are still several problems in both Wayland (e.g. lack of drawing tablet support) and mutter (e.g. tearing protocol non yet implemented). But then you proceed to list problems that are Nvidia’s fault.

            The first is weird, but it probably depends on Nvidia’s kernel driver.

            The second is probably a synchronization issue, so it’s probably due to Nvidia refusing to implement implicit sync, and explicit sync not being yet supported in Linux. But don’t quote me on that.

            Vulkan should work. But video acceleration is definitely absent, and is listed by Nvidia itself among current driver limitations. Try this.

          • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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            11 months ago

            It’s not GNOME’s or wayland’s fault that Nvidia refuses to fix their drivers.