Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 2025-04-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-24 09:31, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-04-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
<https://www.phoronix.com/news/F43-Change-Wayland-Only-GNOME>

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By GNOME 50 next year upstream could completely remove its X11 session
support.

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Fortunately I can choose something NOT Fedora. If they go through with this,
adios Fedora on the laptop I never use.
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Non-problem solved.
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This was one of the reasons I left Fedora and went to Debian.  I had
been tired of the frequent release cycle, and some of the politics, but
the fact they would be earlier than other distros in deprecating X11
pushed me to Debian.  Nothing against Wayland per-se, but it breaks some
X applications, and my Window Manager.
 
The "developers" today are terrible, constantly breaking everything all
the time.  How they feel it is acceptable to constantly break peoples
workflows is beyond me.  Sheer arrogance.

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I went to Ubuntu specifically because I wanted Wayland (for touchpad
gestures) and a proper support for the NVIDIA proprietary driver. The
only issues I have are that the audio becomes distorted when using
speakers and an external _if_ I play a game in Heroic Games Launcher
(but there's no reason to believe it's Wayland anyway since the problem
does not occur if I don't use an external monitor or speakers) and I
can't add a bookmark directly into the sidebar in Brave (it could be a
Brave issue but it doesn't occur in the same version of Brave used on
Cinnamon and X11). Other than that, it's better in every way.

Not for me it isn't. But that's the good thing about Linux. Lots of choices.

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