Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the l…
Read MoreA new version of miracle-wm, the Wayland compositor built on Mir with an i3/Sway style tiling window manager, has been released. Developer Matthew Kosarek, a Canonical engineer developing this keyboard-driven UX in his free time, says the new v0.1…
Read MoreUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS’s updated hardware enablement stack (HWE) brings Linux Kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2.7 and a new set of Wayland Protocols – a nice uplift, right?
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Chrome’s Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active.
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Kubuntu 25.10 will not ship with an X11 desktop session on its ISO, following Ubuntu’s lead. An X11 Plasma session will remain available for manual install.
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KDE Plasma 6.4 is now available to download, featuring a focused set of changes that newcomers and long-time users of this open-source desktop environment stand to benefit from. This is fourth major update in the Plasma 6 series and it’s a stacke…
Read MoreLast month I reported that GNOME’s plans to drop X11 support as soon as this year would have a major impact on Ubuntu, as it plans its next LTS release — today, Ubuntu confirmed as much. Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ will not include…
Read MoreGNOME is looking to jettison X11 session support – as soon as this year, which may impact Ubuntu’s plans for its next long-term support release.
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Archinstall 3.0.2 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor, Btrfs improvements, disk partitioning enhancements, and more.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed users can now install the latest LXQt desktop environment with Wayland support from the official repositories. Here’s how!
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A quick tutorial on how to switch the primary GPU to NVIDIA on your Linux distro using either KDE Plasma or GNOME desktops on Wayland.
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Budgie 10.10 desktop environment is slated for release in Q1 2025 as a Wayland-only release defaulting to the Labwc compositor.
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LXQt 2.1 desktop environment is now available with initial Wayland support, as well as improvements to PCManFM-Qt, LXQt Panel, QTerminal, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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Powered by Linux kernel 6.11, Fedora Linux 41 ships with GNOME 47, Wayland only, DNF 5, a new Miracle official spin, and more.
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Sway 1.10 tiling Wayland compositor released with faster rendering, GPU recovery, ICC profile support, and more.
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The biggest change in the new Raspberry Pi OS release is the enablement of the labwc Wayland compositor by default on all Raspberry Pi models. Previous Raspberry Pi OS versions used the Wayland windowing system by default only for Raspberry Pi 4 and Ra…
Read MoreThe latest Raspberry Pi OS release enables the Wayland windowing system by default across all models of Raspberry Pi by using the labwc Wayland compositor.
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Hyprland 0.44, a tiling Wayland compositor, has been released, bringing new commands, bug fixes, and smoother app resizing.
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New Wine 9.19: Better Unicode support, Wayland improvements, and DirectPlay enhancements.
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The XFCE developers are aiming to release the XFCE version 4.20 with the introduction of preliminary Wayland support in December 2024.
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