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GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

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Re: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

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Post by gabrielgio »

mx7zysuj4xew wrote: post #3

X11 is not going anywhere. If anything it's Gnome adding another nail to its coffin

x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere. Gnome is used (and financed) by major distributions.

Nothing new is being created with x11 and the people from freedesktop don't seen to be thrilled to maintain it. I don't think should change just for the sake of changing, but I'd start looking to migrate whatever you use that depends on x11.

Re: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

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Post by user3939382 »

gabrielgio wrote: post #4
mx7zysuj4xew wrote: post #3

X11 is not going anywhere. If anything it's Gnome adding another nail to its coffin

x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere. Gnome is used (and financed) by major distributions. Nothing new is being created with x11 and the people from freedesktop don't seen to be thrilled to maintain it. I don't think should change just for the sake of changing, but I'd start looking to migrate whatever you use that depends on x11.

Goodbye to any trace of freedom left on Linux when you combine this with proprietary graphics drivers.

Re: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

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Post by ernst_klim »

wongarsu wrote: post #2

I was mostly surprised by the "Gnome 50" part. Last I remembered Gnome was still version 3. Turns out they jumped from 3.38 to version 40

They are not planning to go Gnome 4, hence Gnome 3.40 became 40. Just like Emacs went from 1.12 to 13.

Re: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

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Post by happymellon »

user3939382 wrote: post #5
gabrielgio wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere. Gnome is used (and financed) by major distributions. Nothing new is being created with x11 and the people from freedesktop don't seen to be thrilled to maintain it. I don't think should change just for the sake of changing, but I'd start looking to migrate whatever you use that depends on x11.

Goodbye to any trace of freedom left on Linux when you combine this with proprietary graphics drivers.

Only Nvidia use proprietary graphics drivers?

Re: GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

#9

Post by dminik »

user3939382 wrote: post #5
gabrielgio wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere. Gnome is used (and financed) by major distributions. Nothing new is being created with x11 and the people from freedesktop don't seen to be thrilled to maintain it. I don't think should change just for the sake of changing, but I'd start looking to migrate whatever you use that depends on x11.

Goodbye to any trace of freedom left on Linux when you combine this with proprietary graphics drivers.

Freedom is dead when a single implementation is replaced with several competing implementations implementing an open standard.
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