cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270
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.
“KDE: We hate Unix.”
Linux is not UNIX. And X isn’t part of POSIX.
Also, Wayland works on FreeBSD.
Please refrain from replying to things I haven’t said. None of your points invalidate mine.
So, you just decided to say “KDE: we hate Unix” for no reason whatsoever, because it has no relation to the OP at all?
It does have a relation. KDE worked just well on most Unices for decades. “Going all-in” on Wayland means that they’ll drop support for all operating systems except Linuces and FreeBSD. There are two explanations for that:
I’m not quite sure where you’re misunderstanding me here. Care to elaborate?
I guess their mention that X isn’t part of POSIX very much applies, despite you being dismissive of it. This is an absurd take. Wayland can obviously be ported to whatever is still developed. It’s just software.
If X11 is so good why is there no X12?
X11 is already perfect as it is. Everything left was fixed in the X11Rx releases.