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KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)

submitted 1 hour ago by cm0002@digipres.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I haven't used x11 in like 5 years, I won't miss it :P

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 45 minutes ago

I still run a lot of applications that use it, but they work fine through a compatibility layer

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 0 points 56 minutes ago (2 children)

In other words if you have a nvidia card you wont be using kde plasma. I installed kde neon at the house and plasma shell would core five or six times a day. I had to switch back to X11 just to get a stable machine. I really need to ditch it and go back to a more stable distro.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (2 children)

Really? I’ve been running this on Nvidia since Plasma came out with no issues. Sounds like there’s still bugs to fix.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 6 points 45 minutes ago

Same here - using it on various Nvidia based machines without any issues.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

I looked it up and its fairly common enough but no solution. None that worked anyway. Machine is stable on ubuntu/debian with gnome. I keep having trouble with wayland working right on a some applications as well. Of course all the discussion on these bugs get washed out by the 'its not waylands fault' crowd. None of that fanaticism solves problems for me. They can't even prove their point of view but wont let you discuss the problem.

I tried kde again since it had been five or six years since I tried it. All in all it works but so does gnome. I keep seeing everyone talking about how much trouble it causes but I dont see it in my personal use of it.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 30 minutes ago

I’m glad you have a working system. I’m sorry that your issue wasn’t taken seriously.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

While Nvidia has made it trickier to play with Linux in general, it usually does not require more than a tinker to fix

I have multiple machines running on Nvidia and AMD hardware with Wayland for years

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

Its some combination of plasma and wayland. I run wayland on a few machines here and there and they are okay. The last bug I encountered with wayland was getting a game emulator working for someone in window mode. No one who responded wanted to do anything other than blame the program for not working with wayland. None of that helps solve a problem. So I solved it by switching to X11 and the program worked okay in window mode.