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		antiloper 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropp... X11 isn't going anywhere because distros will ship XWayland for a long time to ensure compatibility with existing X11-only applicatin. xorg-server is gone from the linux desktop. Gnome and KDE use wayland shells by default, and that's what users get when they download a Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever ISO.

yjftsjthsd-h 44 days ago [–]

> xorg-server is gone from the linux desktop. Gnome and KDE use wayland shells by default, and that's what users get when they download a Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever ISO.

Well, no. Stand-alone Xorg is probably declining on the Linux desktop, but "gone" is inaccurate.

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