… 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. …
… A Wayland session under KDE Plasma 6 is very stable now. Some features that slowed Wayland adoption for power users, like buggy custom window rules, virtual desktops misbehaving, and terrible-looking fractional scaling, are in much better shape than even two years ago. …
… Modern tech, familiar feel Rust and Wayland are default COSMIC doesn't carry the GNOME baggage like its previous versions. It's a completely redesigned desktop environment written in Rust and enables native Wayland support , so it can work nicely on modern hardware. …
… HDR support has only been added to Wayland compositors, which took some time to be widely adopted. Only recently have mainstream desktops and distros started switching to Wayland entirely, so things have been finicky until now. …
… KDE Plasma and GNOME both have solid Wayland support, something that has taken smaller desktops years to catch up on. …
… There's more promise around the platform than ever, but the lack of polish on the technical side is proof that we're still a long way from mainstream adoption. …
… When a Windows game asks Windows to "create a window with these dimensions," Wine intercepts that call and handles it using Linux's X11 or Wayland. …