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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment.

Going along with Fedora 40 looking to disable the GNOME X11 session support (and also making KDE Plasma 6 Wayland-only for Fedora), upstream GNOME is evaluating the prospect of disabling and then removing their X11 session support.

Some concerns were raised already how this could impact downstream desktops like Budgie and Pantheon that haven't yet fully transitioned over to Wayland. In any event we'll see where the discussions lead but it's sure looking like 2024 will be the year that GNOME goes Wayland-only.

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[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Unpopular opinion but

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand?

Linus Torvalds

Forcing Nvidia to update drivers by breaking your system otherwise us not the correct way to do it.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I thought Wayland still didn't work with nvidia cards?

[–] Espi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It works, nowhere near as good as AMD but it works.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/NVIDIA
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia somehow supports it even better
According to https://arewewaylandyet.com/ nouveau has support for wlroots and sway

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[–] lascapi@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Sounds good!

That's a hard work to try to be compatible with X11 and Wayland.

I hope that could simplify that.

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[–] vsh@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FOSS linux gods will bring it back the first week, change my mind

[–] Cornelius@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

They haven't brought it back by supporting x11 itself, I don't see how this will be much different.

Effort is better spent making Wayland the X11 replacement it's supposed to be.

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