Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland.

For those making use of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 in a desktop setting, RHEL10 due for release in H1’2025 will be Wayland-focused. X11 client support will only come via XWayland.

This does also further solidify the X.Org Server in effect being dead upstream. Red Hat engineers were typically the ones managing new X.Org Server releases as well as carrying on with various bits of development.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never experienced such a thing. The only reason I switched to Wayland was because of it’s security improvements. But overall I think that for any regular user it’s a downgrade coming from the robustness of X11.