A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment.

Going along with Fedora 40 looking to disable the GNOME X11 session support (and also making KDE Plasma 6 Wayland-only for Fedora), upstream GNOME is evaluating the prospect of disabling and then removing their X11 session support.

Some concerns were raised already how this could impact downstream desktops like Budgie and Pantheon that haven’t yet fully transitioned over to Wayland. In any event we’ll see where the discussions lead but it’s sure looking like 2024 will be the year that GNOME goes Wayland-only.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    433·
    9 months ago

    Well let’s hope that massively improves the Wayland experience then. I tried it last week and still had flickering screens, laggy windows, and crashing games. In the current state it would be unacceptable for me to switch

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      18·
      9 months ago

      I had the same problems until I switched to an AMD card. Since then it’s been smooth sailing in Wayland.

    • jokro@feddit.de
      4·
      9 months ago

      I had those issues with an old nvdia driver version, bun on the recent ones it works better.