Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately. So today, let’s talk about it!
So I guess this means KDE will stop working on Nvidia GPUs with the Nvidia drivers.
No it means that a single distro won’t, by default, use X11. You are free to install it yourself if you choose to use that specific distro.
It doesn’t say anywhere that KDE won’t support X11…
Also the fact that Nvidia works so badly in so many scenarios on linux is 80% of the fault of Nvidia, not KDE…
@DavidGA @n1729
Did you read the same blog post as me? Because that is not what that post is saying at all.
Yep we did read the same post.
Guys seem to miss that dropping X11 from Fedora KDE 40 is still under proposal.
@DavidGA if you read the blog, then this proposal is for Fedora 40 [KDE spin only].
@n1729
Fedora != KDE
Fedora KDE Spin != KDE
There is no proposal in KDE for abandoning X11.
Wayland slowly start to work OK on NVidia.
Linux users need to stop buying nvidia.
How about we let Linux users do what they want?
Why would you want to give your money to the one option that Linus says is the single worst company they’ve ever dealt with?
Because my life doesn’t revolve around what Linus says?
Is that so hard to understand?
Do you have a vested interest in Nvidia or something?
No, I just don’t base my purchasing decisions around whether some other person would like it or not.
People like you are the reason why the Linux community is viewed as elitist.
The reason I’m speaking up is that I am sick and tired of people buying nvidia and then bitching that it doesn’t work. Not people who already had nvidia hardware or received it secondhand. People who keep buying nvidia laptops and cards and bitching that it doesn’t work all the time, especially with the transition to Wayland.
I stated the reason that this is the case, confirmed by the leader of the kernel, and you’re turning it into “I don’t care what Linus thinks.” It’s not elitism. The fact is that nvidia doesn’t care about Linux as much as Intel and AMD do. That’s just facts. And there’s no hope of this ever changing unless Linux users start boycotting nvidia.
Wayland works fine on Nvidia. And as long as NVidia is coddled with Xorg the longer they’ll not bother with Wayland. About time they got their act together