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.

      • serratur@lemmy.wtf
        403·
        9 months ago

        No its Nvidia that doesnt work with wayland, they need to fix their drivers.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          105·
          9 months ago

          Honestly don’t care who needs to fix something but “works with” is not that kind of relation. Either A works with B and B works with A or neither do. There certainly is no “opposite” involved here.

      • Vincent@kbin.social
        162·
        9 months ago

        I think they mean Nvida cards don’t work with Wayland - i.e. it’s Nvidia’s fault.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          95·
          9 months ago

          I honestly don’t really care whose fault it is but it is a rather large part of the potential user base that would be cut off by this change.