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please no, XFCE is my last refuge for machines too old to support Wayland
you understand that you can still use x11 with KDE or gnome right?
They're not killing X11 support, don't worry. They're just expanding to Wayland support.
I am running Wayland on my 2013 MacBook Air. Joe old is your hardware?
GTS 450 lol
A lot of Wayland compositors have a GLES 2.0 renderer which should be supported by ancient GPUs. If you try Vulkan based compositors you might be out of luck.
If I am not mistaken the GTS 450 should be more than powerful enough especially by Linux standards.