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GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

Both Wayland & Linux try to support Nvidia, but Nvidia wasn't cooperating. Software, especially software as big as DEs can't stay tied to old tech & hardware forever.

I'd say GNOME kept X11 around for long enough and Linux worked hard on supporting old fussy hardware.