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Fedora 43 to Remove GNOME X11 Support (linuxiac.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago

There is a difference. vi vs emacs is about preference as is GNOME vs KDE. All can exist side by side and the fans can duke it out.

Wayland is replacing Xorg. It is not a choice between the two. It is a choice between the future or the past. That is a more bitter pill for those that choose the past.

X11 the protocol will be around for quite a while. Xwayland has no end date in sight. But the Xorg display server is going to be parked on the history shelf next to SystemV UNIX. You can still run UnixWare today but UnixWare vs Fedora (or RHEL) is not a real fight.

Wayland vs Xorg is not a fight either. Wayland is not just winning. It has already won.

Outside of Xwayland, nobody is going to invest in Xorg going forward. Most Linux desktop users have already moved to Wayland. It will be almost 100% by the end of the year. BSD and other POSIX operating systems will follow.

The BSD folks say that they will maintain Xorg themselves into the future. We will see. My guess is that it will increasingly be an option for legacy hardware only.