X11's Dying Days Mean You'll Be Forced to Switch to Wayland

X11's dying days mean you'll be forced to switch to Wayland

Wayland, a more modern, secure, and high-performance graphics protocol, is officially replacing X11. It's the end of an era in Linux history.

If you want to keep using KDE and GNOME, you’re going to have to move to Wayland – OSnews

With the transition from X11 to Wayland in full swing, from popular distributions removing X11 sessions altogether and the two major desktop environments planning for the removal of X11 support as well, there’s a ton of questions people are dealing with. Both the KDE and GNOME project published detailed blog posts about the matter. First, KDE’s Nathan Graham makes it very clear that KDE Plasma’s X11 sessions continues to be maintained. This mean…

GNOME Moves On: What the End of the X11 Session Means

GNOME is dropping its X11 session support in the upcoming version 49—here's what this means for the X11 users.