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[โ€“] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, they are reverting back. Fedora users always live on the edge. They are basically (but not quite right) "always" the first accepting a new technology. Not even Archlinux does that. Arch users obviously live on the edge too, but for other reasons. :D

But wasn't Fedora not going to discontinue X11 support only for GNOME version? I thought other spins are still allowed to support it, but doesn't matter anymore, because they reverting this idea back. I think. But why didn't you switch to another distribution, instead buying new hardware, if that was the only problem?

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 23 hours ago

From what I recall when trying it, I don't think KDE had X11 as an option either, which is my preferred DE. The other spins did retain X11 though.

My laptop with Nvidia graphics became unstable due to faulty hardware, so I used the opportunity to switch to an AMD desktop to hopefully have longer term reliability. I would've stuck with the laptop and just used Linux Mint, had it not failed.