Linux distros have been slowly adopting Wayland, a new display server standard that aims to address the problems of X11. As more distros make Wayland the default option, X11 is starting to fade out.
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Why I ditched X11 in favor of Wayland on Linux
In order to have anything displayed on your monitor, Linux uses a display server protocol to manage graphical applications. Traditionally, X11 was the go-to choice and evolved into a reliable way to ...
Wayland is a modern display server protocol designed to replace the aging X11 protocol, aiming to provide a faster, more secure, and more efficient Linux desktop experience. It is the language that ...
Wayland is the Linux display server that has been in the slow, steady process of taking over X11 to deliver a more modern, robust, and secure GUI for Linux. Wayland offers better performance, better ...
Linux Mint will be slowing down how often it releases its namesake distro. We'll still see the next distro not long after Ubuntu 26.04 appears. Mint will continue to support X11 and Wayland for now.
In early 2027, and thus a little more than a year after Gnome, KDE also wants to remove support for X11 and fully rely on Wayland. KDE Plasma will only be able to generate the user interface using ...
Ariadne Conill has presented the experimental Xorg compatibility layer Wayback. This enables Linux distributions to completely abandon the Xorg server without taking the ground out from under the feet ...
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