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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… Someone got a Wayland compositor running in Minecraft, because why not "I use Java, by the way" As spotted by Hackaday , this cool mod comes to us via EVV1E. It's called Waylandcraft, and its main job is to, well, bring Wayland into Minecraft. …
… 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. …
… 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. …