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The biggest downside to X11 disappearing is that a lot of remote desktop apps and headless sessions use it. VNC servers, X11 forwarding over SSH, and XRDP all rely on it, and there's no perfect equivalent for them in Wayland. But even that space is slowly shifting over to Wayland, with tools like GNOME Remote Desktop gaining traction and RDP support growing. It's not as straightforward as X11 was, but it's getting there. Most users on KDE Plasma probably aren't going to be doing serious headless remote session work through it anyway, and those who are should be able to find viable alternatives
KDE is finally killing X11, and I'm not as sad as I thought I'd be… Protocol finalised, but distributions must implement it before Wayland restores sessions by default. If you've used a Wayland-based Linux operating system, you'll know that windows that you close don't reappear where they were when a session ends, such as after a crash or a logout. …
… The fix will land with Wine 11.9; Wayland compositors KWin, Mutter, and wlroots already support the new API. …
… Here are some of the big highlights for Wayland users, including a fix for an annoying wake-up issue: Fixed a bug that would prevent kwin wayland from being able to wake up display under certain scenarios. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/bug-external-monitor-fails-to-wake-up-from-powersave-mo… …
… Wayland has come a long way since then , with KDE in particular working aggressively to fix those problems that kept people reaching for X11. A Wayland session under KDE Plasma 6 is very stable now. …
… Related Wayland might be the future of Linux, but I’m not leaving X11 yet Explore the unexpected benefits of X11 that are making Linux users hesitant to embrace the new Wayland technology. …
… VLC replaced by phonon-mpv as Phonon backend; SDDM 0.20 can run Wayland, 0.21 will default to Wayland. …
… Archcraft Wayland Special Edition Not exclusively. Hyprland is preinstalled and preconfigured alongside other Wayland compositors. …
… Wayland and X11 What even is a display server? Another seemingly never-ending debate within the Linux community is the battle between X11 and Wayland. …
… The Wayland driver has come a long way. Clipboard support now works bidirectionally between Wine and native Wayland applications, which is one of those things you don't think about until it doesn't work and it drives you mad. Drag-and-drop from Wayland apps into Wine windows is supported. …
… Related GNOME 50 goes Wayland-only as its alpha build scraps the X11 backend Another desktop environment goes the way of the Wayland.