Re:KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 ...
by lousken on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:44PM
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It would be critical if I were to move any non-IT employees from windows to linux.
As said in one of my comments - this could very well mean that the next version of Debian will have KDE Wayland only which would already mean <5years of support today. I am not saying wayland is not catching up, I am saying enterprise apps are the issue.
Re:KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 ...
by prmoustache on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:02PM
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Almalinux 10 will receive security updates until 2035, Ubuntu 24.04 until april 2039, 25.04 would go until april 2041 by that logic, many of us will be considering retirement at that point. Enterprise malware will have plenty of time to adapt and many will have disappeared before reaching the 2040's.
Re:KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 ...
by account42 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @04:34AM
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> Having said that, deprecating x11 completely is the one motivation for dev to fix bugs and/or find ways.
It's the most user hostile way to accomplish that, and it won't even work as many things will just remain broken.
Having said that, deprecating x11 completely is the one motivation for dev to fix bugs and/or find ways. Wayland really started to catch up with missing features when some distros like Fedora started using it by default.
If you want to stay on legacy stuff such as x11 while the remaining stuff is fixed, there are plenty of long term support distros out there anyway. You aren't forced to use the latest bleeding edge kde version available.