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.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    71·
    12 hours ago

    So, you just decided to say “KDE: we hate Unix” for no reason whatsoever, because it has no relation to the OP at all?

    • rhabarba@feddit.org
      16·
      10 hours ago

      It does have a relation. KDE worked just well on most Unices for decades. “Going all-in” on Wayland means that they’ll drop support for all operating systems except Linuces and FreeBSD. There are two explanations for that:

      1. They don’t care about (most of) Unix.
      2. They actively despise (most of) Unix.

      I’m not quite sure where you’re misunderstanding me here. Care to elaborate?

      • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        81·
        9 hours ago

        I guess their mention that X isn’t part of POSIX very much applies, despite you being dismissive of it. This is an absurd take. Wayland can obviously be ported to whatever is still developed. It’s just software.