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.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      153·
      1 day ago

      It’s understandable on some level: if you’re suddenly no longer part of the majority tribe you know you’ll get fewer bug fixes and so on.

      So bullying and FUDing people into staying with your tribe could pay off.

      What I don’t get is how they don’t realize that they’ve lost. PulseAudio (through PipeWire) is here to stay. Systemd is here to stay. Wayland is here to stay.

      Maybe they just like being contrarian if they can’t win.

      • BunScientist@lemmy.zipEnglish
        63·
        23 hours ago

        The main thing is that pipewire is a drop-in replacement because of how it works, wayland isnt

        • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 minutes ago

          xwayland makes things a near drop in replacement for wayland and people still complain.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
          21·
          8 hours ago

          What made you think that that’s a relevant answer?

          I specifically said PULSEAUDIO is here to stay, you know, as opposed to manually managing a trillion ALSA devices.

          Then I mentioned PipeWire to placate the nitpickers who would point out that PulseAudio (the implementation) isn’t actually around anymore, only the device management paradigm.

          And somehow you honed into that word, completely ignored everything around it, and said some stuff that sounds vaguely related to the topic at hand, yet has no actual meaning.

          Why?